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| Death toll in northeast Nigeria attack 'at least 142' |
| 2013-09-23 |
| [FRANCE24] The corpse count from an attack in northeastern Nigeria that saw snuffies dressed as soldiers set up checkpoints and gun down travellers on a highway has risen to at least 142, an official said Sunday. "We recovered 55 bodies on Wednesday and 87 on Thursday," Abdulaziz Kolomi, an official with the environmental protection agency in Borno state where the attack occurred, told AFP. The previous toll from the attack in the Benisheik area was 87. The snuffies suspected to be from Islamist bad boy group 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... also burned scores of homes and buildings in the assault and left corpses littering the roadside. The motivation behind the assault was not immediately clear, but Boko Haram members have repeatedly carried out Dire Revenge™ attacks against residents over the emergence of vigilante groups that have formed to assist the military. Residents said the attackers singled out people from Borno, while letting people from other regions pass through checkpoints. Benisheik was also the scene of deadly festivities on September 8 between suspected Boko Haram gunnies and vigilantes. |
| Posted by:Fred |