More than 5,000 residents of Kirawa, a border town in Nigeria’s northeast, have fled to neighbouring Cameroon following an overnight assault by Boko Haram insurgents, news agency Reuters quoted officials and community leaders in the area as reporting on Friday.
The attack late on Thursday forced the district head, Abdulrahman Abubakar, to abandon his palace, which, along with a military barracks and several homes, was set ablaze.
“I was left with no option but to flee to Cameroon,” Abubakar told Reuters.
“Residents boarded trucks to seek refuge across
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