Two villagers who said they were among the first to find the body of Sgt. La David Johnson in Niger last month recalled discovering the body with a gaping head wound and the soldier’s hands tied, a report said Friday.
The Washington Post reported that the villagers’ accounts raise the possibility that Johnson was first captured in the Oct. 4 ambush before being killed.
“His two arms were tied behind his back,” Adamou Boubacar, 23, a farmer, told the paper in a phone interview. Another witness told the paper separately that the back of Johnson’s head “was a mess, as if they had hit him with something hard, like a hammer. They took his shoes. He was wearing only socks.”
Johnson, 25, was one of the four U.S. soliders killed in an ambush believed to have been orchestrated by militants linked to the Islamic State group in Niger. The attack took place outside a remote village called Tongo Tongo.
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