UN withdraws claim 110 died in Saturday’s Boko Haram attack

01 Dec UN withdraws claim 110 died in Saturday’s Boko Haram attack

The United Nations on Monday withdrew an earlier claim that 110 farmers were killed by suspected Boko Haram insurgents in Zabarmari community, Borno State.

Borno governor, Babagana Zulum and the Nigerian Army had said 43 farmers were killed.

In the initial UN statement, signed by Eve Sabbagh, UN’s Head of Public Information at the OCHA in Nigeria, Kallon said he was “outraged and horrified by the gruesome attack against civilians carried out by non-state armed groups in villages near Borno State capital Maiduguri.”

He added that “at least 110 civilians were ruthlessly killed and many others were wounded in this attack.”

However, in a new release on Monday, the UN said its initial statement was inaccurate.

The UN’s head, public information, said the earlier numbers quoted by Mr Kallon were not correctly sourced.