Police: 29 people killed, 9 injured in Boko Haram attack in Borno.

In Borno State’s remote community of Mukdolo, Islamist militants launched an attack that left 29 fishermen dead and nine others critically injured.

On March 8, an attack took place in Mukdolo, a local government area in Gamborun.

Sani Kamilu, a state police spokesperson who confirmed the incident, connected the attack to the Boko Haram terrorist organization on Friday.

He claimed that the militants surrounded the village and opened fire on the hard-at-work fishermen.

Nine other fishermen were injured severely but managed to escape while 29 were killed.

The remote Mukdolo village is where the long-running extremist violence is concentrated, so the locals have long since left.

However, occasionally residents of the nearby village of Dikwa travel there to go fishing.

“That location has been abandoned, so no one is present there; however, the villagers from Dikwa visit there to fish. Sadly, Boko Haram surrounded the area this time, and they were killed, Kamilu said.

On March 9, some of the bodies from the Wednesday attacks were found and interred, according to Kamilu.

He added that a police officer had died in a different incident.

The government has been tasked by the United Nations (UN) to look into the killing of the villagers.

The UN called the attack “heinous” and “horrendous” in a statement made by Matthias Schmale, the Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria.

The group expressed sympathy to the families of the deceased and wished those who were hurt a speedy recovery.

The UN also urged “all parties to the conflict to adhere to their obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law to protect civilians from harm”.

Thousands of civilians have been killed and millions have been displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency in the North, particularly in the Lake Chad region that is shared by Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria.

A 14-year-old insurgency that aims to abolish western education and establish an Islamic state is currently plaguing the nation.