IS Gunmen Kill 29 in Nigeria Village Raid

0:00It's April 28th. Welcome to Global News Today, powered by AI, I'm Cory with the story. Gunman linked to the Islamic State Group killed at least 29 people in a brutal raid on a village in Nigeria's northeastern Adamawa State. The attack hit Guaku village in the Gambi area where militants stormed a football pitch, fired at random, and torched homes, worship sites, and motorcycles. IS claimed responsibility online, but gave no clear reason. The assault dragged on for hours, leaving the community in ruins. Governor Amadou Umaru Fintiri rushed to the scene, calling it a direct attack on basic humanity. His team shared images of the devastation, noting how fear gripped everyone as families fled their homes to dodge more violence. Locals described the heavy mood of grief and tension, with many abandoning everything out of worry for follow-up strikes. This fits a pattern in the rest of border zone with Cameroon, where is affiliates and criminal gangs have hit hard for years.

1:01Earlier this month, Nigeria's sentence nearly 400 people and mass trials tied to Boko Haram and his rival, IS West Africa Province splinter. That insurgency kicked off back in 2009, claiming tens of thousands of lives in displacing over 2 million across Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon. Authorities are ramping up security ops to lock down peace and made huge pressure on the government to tame insecurity before January's elections. Late last year, the U.S. even hid militants with deadly strikes in the northwest, showing how global eyes stay fixed on this fight.