12-28-2020
File photo of Islamic terrorists in the Boko Haram group.
Members of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram reportedly attacked and killed 11 people in a Christian village in northern Nigeria on Christmas Eve.
According to the BBC, the militants rode into Pemi village in the Borno state and set fire to a church. The militants abducted a priest and took medical supplies from a hospital, then set it on fire.
Open Doors Analyst Illia Djadi told the Christian Daily that Boko Haram that Christians are regularly targeted by the terrorists. Christians are the primary target because they are not Muslims. The radicals want to turn them into Muslims by force and if they refuse, they will kill them or turn them into sex slaves, Djadi said.
A predominantly Christian village in Nigeria was attacked on Christmas Eve, leaving several people dead.
At least 11 people were killed in the attack on Pemi village in Borno state, according to AFP news agency.
A church was also set on fire and the priest abducted, the news agency reports.
The attack has been blamed on Boko Haram, a militant group that has been terrorizing Christian communities across the northeast of Nigeria for years.
A local leader told AFP that gunmen rode into the village on trucks and motorbikes, and started shooting indiscriminately. The terrorists killed seven people, burned 10 homes and looted food supplies that were meant to be distributed to residents to celebrate Christmas, militia leader Abwaku Kabu said.