It was a gloomy day in Zabarmari village since tens of thousands of residents from the rice-producing community situated in Jere Local Government Area of Borno State assembled to spoil the 43 corpses of farmers which were slaughtered the prior moment.
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Borno State governor, Babagana Zulum, directed other leading members of the administration to attend the burial which happened in Zabarmari. “We are here in order to sympathise with all the people of Zabarmari within this sad event,” he explained. PREMIUM TIMES Saturday reported at least 40 rice farmers had been beheaded while functioning in their farms.
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The governor of Borno State afterwards addressed the inhabitants of the neighbourhood that gathered in the front of the village head, in which he consoled them within the unhappy event.
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Mourners heaved 43 corpses to nine mass graves, with each one featuring a mean five corpses of the murdered farmers, following an Islamic funeral attended many tearful mourners.
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“It’s disheartening that over 40 citizens were slaughtered while they had been functioning in their farmlands. Our individuals are in very tough circumstances, they’re in two distinct extreme problems. On a single hand.
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They stay in the home, they might be killed by starvation and thirst, on the flip, they head out for their own farmlands and risk getting killed by the insurgents. This is quite sad.
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