Boko Haram insurgents  reportedly captured Gudumbali, a community in Gudumbali Local Government Area of Borno State on Friday, forcing its residents to flee to neighbouring towns and communities.

 The insurgents recaptured the town which it had first captured about four years ago during the height of the insurgency in Nigeria’s northeast.

The town was however recaptured by Nigerian Army personnel about a year ago with the residents only just returning in trickles before Friday’s incident.

About 378 families composing about 2000 individuals began their journey back to Gudumbali after spending years in a camp for Internally Displaced Persons, in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.

On returning however, the returnees discovered the town had been recaptured by Boko Haram since Friday.

According to one of the returnees who escaped the latest onslaught, the insurgents ordered them to vacate the village immediately because they had a different mission.

Some of the returnees escaped to nearby villages around Monguno and Gubio local government areas even as the Nigerian Army is yet to confirm or deny the attack.

Boko Haram has gained resurgence lately especially after being bolstered by escaping Islamic State jihadists fleeing from defeat in Iraq and Syria where they had declared a caliphate which has now failed.