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| Civilians Hit again in NE Nigeria, as Boko Haram Kills 42 |
| 2015-06-25 |
| [AnNahar] Suspected 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 rubbed out at least 42 people in two separate attacks in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , with no let-up in sight to the Islamist group's targeting of civilians. The attacks in the remote villages of Debiro Hawul and Debiro Biu in Borno state on Monday and Tuesday came before at least 10 people were killed in a suicide kaboom in neighboring Yobe. The attacks saw some 30 Lion of Islam fighters storm Debiro Biu on Monday and Debiro Hawul the following day, with reports taking time to emerge because of the villages' remote location. "We received reports of attacks by suspected Boko Haram gunnies on the two villages, in which 42 deaths were recorded," one police officer told AFP from the town of Biu. Umaru Markus, who fled Debiro Hawul, said the attacks were carried out by some 30 Islamists in a convoy of pick-up trucks and cycle of violences. The rebels rubbed out their victims after looting homes and shops and setting fire to buildings, he added. "They came around 12:30 am (1130 GMT on Tuesday) and opened fire on the village, which sent people scampering into the bush to escape the attack," he said. "The gunnies slaughtered 22 people who were not fast enough in fleeing and went about looting homes, grains silos and drug stores." The attack on Debiro Biu left 20 people dead, he said. "It never occurred to us we would be the next target," he added. Ending the insurgency is a priority for Buhari and his administration. The new president has already visited Chad and Niger to secure sustained regional support for the fight-back. On Tuesday, his office said he had accepted an invitation to go to Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , whose far north region has been increasingly hit by the violence. A new regional fighting force comprising 8,700 troops from Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon and Benin is due to deploy at the end of next month. But there will be pressure to counter Boko Haram's urban guerrilla tactics to which it has reverted after it captured swathes of territory last year. |
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