“I was about to run out of the room; four Fulani herdsmen ambushed us. They grabbed me, and one of them shot me in the chest, while another slashed my hand with a machete. I was also stabbed in the back.
“They grabbed hold of my brother and mother, tormenting her, telling her to watch them slaughter her son. One of them had an AK47 and shot my brother, who died instantly. My mother could not hold back her pain and collapsed,” Usoo said.
“On seeing that, I fell unconscious, and the attackers thought I was dead and left. Soon after they left, villagers began to collect all the dead bodies for mass burial; that was when they found out I was still breathing. They rushed me to the hospital, where I spent a few months,” Usoo told ACN.
When he left the hospital, Usoo was told four other relatives had been killed in the attack.
With his remaining family, Usoo left his home village to seek shelter in an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp known as “Guma Camp.”
IDP camps in Nigeria are known for extreme hardship and poverty. At Guma Camp, his wife and three more of his children died.
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