Boko Haram Kills more than 80, Burns Children to Death in Nigeria
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Boko Haram militants killed 86 people, including children, in their recent attack on villages in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday, yet the horrifying details of the attacks emerged on Sunday.
The Saturday night assault on the outskirts of the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram, lasted for hours, targeting villages and camps housing some 25,000 refugees, according to survivors and soldiers at the scene. By Sunday afternoon, 86 bodies were collected, and another 62 victims were being treated for burns.
Relatively, the extremist group launched the attack on the village of Dalori, where scores of charred corpses and bodies with bullet wounds could be seen lying in the streets.
Meanwhile, some eyewitness reported that Boko Haram extremists firebombed huts, adding that he heard the screams of children burning to death from a hiding place in a tree.
The shooting and burning attack was carried out by three suicide bombers and continued for nearly four hours, another eyewitness who lost several family members told media.
In the process, and as scores of villagers were murdered in Dalori, Boko Haram attackers targeted the neighboring village of Gamori, where three female suicide bombers blew themselves up among those who had managed to escape the first wave of violence.
In the context, survivors complained that it had taken too long for military help to arrive at the scene of the massacre from nearby Maiduguri. The first troops to arrive in Dalori were unable to overcome the attackers as the terrorists were better armed. The extremist aggressors later retreated only after reinforcements with heavier weapons arrived.
The attack came just a day after Boko Haram carried out a twin bombing that claimed the lives of 15 people in Adamawa state, also located northeast of Nigeria.
The Boko Haram terrorist group, whose name is literally translated "Western education is forbidden," is believed to be even more deadly than "ISIS". Its extremists in Africa are said to have killed more people than "ISIS", to which they pledged allegiance in 2015.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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