The fighters reportedly started retreating only after the military troops reached the village with heavier reinforcement.
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The mass killings resulting to the deaths of 86 people including children occurred Saturday as scores of Boko Haram fighters indiscriminately fired at locals in the village of Dalori some seven miles from city of Maiduguri known as the birthplace of the extremist organization.
Army spokesman Colonel Mustapha Anka said the assailants had opened fire after arriving in the village on motorbikes and in two cars and had then begun torching homes.
On Sunday, there were approximately 86 casualties and 62 villagers who suffered burns and are under treatment.
WorldStage Newsonline- A total of 65 persons lost their lives and 136 persons injured following the weekend attacks on Dalori village by insurgents, according to a statement from national Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
In the neighbouring Adamawa state, a suicide bomber believed to be a Boko Haram militant killed around 10 people on Friday, while at least 12 were killed last Wednesday in an attack on the Borno state village of Chibok. Over 100 people were killed by the insurgents and 300 houses razed.
He told the AP he hid in a tree while Boko Haram militants firebombed huts, and heard children screaming as people were burned to death. The survivor, identified by AP as Alamin Bakura, told the newswire that several of his family members were either killed or wounded.
At least 69 dead bodies have been registered in a morgue following multiple suicide attacks in a community near Maiduguri, capital of Borno State in Nigeria’s volatile northeast region, sources at a government-run hospital said on Sunday.
Al Jazeera reports that Boko Haram uprisings have “killed 20,000 people in only six years and has driven 2.3 million people from their homes”.
Boko Haram is now the target of blame after a witness said it was the extremist group who massacred a small village in Nigeria.
Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Cameroon have formed a coalition along with Benin to fight Boko Haram and have marshalled a force of 8,700 soldiers, police and civilians. Maiduguri has been a regional magnet for rural populations displaced by Boko Haram violence.
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The publication said on Monday that while it is true that Boko Haram no longer controls large towns and is not governing large territory, it pointed out that the insurgency remains deadly and that the conflict is “far from over”.
