Civilians armed with slingshots and homemade shotguns in Nigeria’s north are scrambling to fend off assault rifle-toting terrorists, according to a leader of a group that battled the attackers on the night of July 31.
“We laid in the grass firing stones with our slingshots and firing the few Dane guns [shotguns] in our possession to scare the attackers,” according to a civilian watch leader, who declined to give his name.
