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| Nigeria Boko Haram crisis: Militants 'kill 150' |
| 2015-07-03 |
| [BBC] Nearly 150 people are reported to have been killed by suspected Boko Haram Islamist militants in attacks in Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state. The corpse count has grown by 50 since yesterday's reportage. Eyewitnesses say the gunmen stormed the village of Kukawa near Lake Chad on Wednesday evening, killing 97 people, including women and children. They're favored targets under Islam. On Tuesday, the militants shot dead 48 men after they had finished prayers in two villages near the town of Monguno, a resident told the BBC. "Mosque" and "mass murder." They go together so well. The women are said to have been spared. They've probably got a use for them in mind. Waste not want not. Monguno was recently recaptured from Boko Haram. At least 23 people died in the town last month after a confiscated Boko Haram bomb exploded during celebrations to mark the successful military operation against the Islamist group. Bomb sex? That's a new one on me. According to Amnesty International, at least 17,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed since 2009, when Boko Haram launched its violent uprising to try to impose militant Islamist rule. |
| Posted by:Fred |