Boko Haram Reached Nzangula on Sunday Night and Left at Dawn. The Church of the Brethren Is Burned, Twelve Are Buried, and the Police Spokesman Is Not Answering His Phone.
A seven hour raid on a Church of the Brethren village in Gombi, Adamawa. Twelve buried on Monday, a woman taken, the church burned, and no word from the police.
The men came on motorcycles. Residents say there were more than fifty of them, three to a bike, and that the shooting started at about a quarter to nine on Sunday night, September 6. They were still in the village at four the next morning.
Nzangula Kilba is a farming village in Guyaku Ward, Gombi council, in the south of Adamawa State in Nigeria's northeast. Its church belongs to the Ekklesiyar Yan'uwa a Nigeria, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria. By Monday afternoon the village had counted its dead. The chairman of Gombi council, Markus Ishaya, put the number at twelve, with two more wounded and lying in the cottage hospital in Gombi town. A resident who reached Punch by telephone said eleven bodies had been recovered and that people were still missing in the bush. Both numbers are in this piece because both were said.
The church was burned. The chairman said so. Three houses burned with it, and two shops were broken open. A woman was carried off.
And the Adamawa police spokesman, Suleiman Nguroje, did not pick up. Punch called him on Monday and kept calling. By the time the first reports were filed, nobody at the state command had confirmed that anything had happened at all.
