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| Boko Haram Kills 43 in NE Nigeria Raids |
| 2015-06-12 |
| [AnNahar] Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... gunnies killed at least 43 people and burned down three villages in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , residents told AFP Thursday, the latest in an upsurge of attacks by the Islamist turbans. Dozens of rebels on cycle of violences stormed Matangale, Buraltima and Dirmanti in restive Borno state on Tuesday, opening fire on villagers before looting and burning homes, fleeing residents said. News of the assault was slow to emerge due to poor communication in the region after Boko Haram destroyed telecoms masts in previous attacks. "They came around 4:00 pm (1500 GMT) on 20 cycle of violences, three gunnies on each, and attacked Matangale before proceeding to Buraltima and Dirmanti," said resident Dala Tungushe. "They killed 43 people and burned all the houses in the three villages after looting food supplies," Tungushe, who fled Matangale to Biu, some 90 kilometers (56 miles) away. Matangale was worst hit by the attack as the attackers shot up an open well outside the village where residents had gathered to fetch drinking water and do their laundry. "The Boko Haram gunnies opened fire on the crowd at the well where they killed around 16 people," said Bulama Karuye, another resident. "In all, we lost 43 people in the attacks. All the three villages were completely burnt." He added the number of casualties could have been much higher had some of the villagers not been away at a weekly market around 40 kilometers away. Hundreds of residents of the affected villages, particularly women and kiddies, fled to nearby Damboa town where they had sought refuge in a primary school, both Tungushe and Karuye said. They said the attackers came from nearby Sambisa Forest, a major Boko Haram stronghold from where hundreds of women and kiddies kidnapped by the Troops and local hunters from Damboa pursued the fleeing attackers into the bush and a shootout erupted. "The soldiers and the hunters brought back a pickup truck and some cycle of violences they recovered from the Boko Haram attackers... but we don't know how many of the gunnies they killed," Tungushe said. More than 150 people have been killed by Boko Haram since President Muhammadu Buhari took power on May 29, vowing to crush the |
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