The death toll of last Saturday night’s attack at Dalori, on the outskirts of Maiduguri, the northeast Nigeria’s Borno State capital has increased to 85, a top health official said.
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It has launched additional attacks in Chad, Cameroon and Niger, and is allied with the Islamic State group.
On Friday, a double bombing killed at least 15 people in a grain market in Nigeria’s Adamawa state, to the south of Borno state. Boko Haram fighters opened fire on residents, set fire to houses and targeted a crowd with suicide bombers, as seen on pictures that show the result of the attack with burned-out buildings and charred livestock.
The latest attack is one of many executed by Nigeria’s homegrown Islamic extremists group.
“They came in Golf saloon cars and began to shoot sporadically”.
Those who survived the attack in the village and ran to the nearby village of Gamori were attacked by female suicide bombers from Boko Haram.
“We were seated outside our home shortly after the Isha prayer when we heard gunshots and within a few minutes the invaders had arrived”, Malam Masa Dalori, a community leader, was quoted as saying by the Guardian. It also shows the aftermath of a Boko Haram raid on a village in which the armed group killed almost 100 people and destroyed or badly damaged scores of homes and other buildings.
At least 86 people, including children, killed in a series of attacks on a village in northern Nigeria.
Mallam Hassan, another villager, gave a similar account.
“Our concern is that many children are still missing we don’t know if they are dead or alive because they are young girls and children, ” CJTF source said.
On Sunday, there were approximately 86 casualties and 62 villagers who suffered burns and are under treatment. “I am sure many could have died today”, vigilante Musa Adamu told AFP. Survivors say the militants spent almost 4 uninterrupted hours wreaking havoc on the community and even when the military arrived, they were underarmed, having to go back for reinforcement. These four countries have unified together, along with Benin, to fight Boko Haram.
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The war between Boko Haram and the Nigerian government has killed 20,000 people in six years and driven 2.3 million people from their homes.
