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| Boko Haram Attack Kills Seven in NE Nigeria Village |
| 2015-08-18 |
| [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... hard boyz on Monday raided a village in restive northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... 's Borno state near the border with Niger, killing seven people, community leaders told AFP. Dozens of gunnies stormed Awonori, a farming and herding village near the fishing town of Damasak, and carted away food supplies and livestock, they said. "They killed seven people, looted grains and took away all the livestocks in the village before fleeing into the bush," Muhammadu Modu Wan-Wan, head of the Damasak fishermen's union, told AFP. "The gunnies who came in vans and on cycle of violences around 7:00 am (0600 GMT) besieged the village and opened fire on residents as they were having breakfast before moving to their farms," he said. Wan-Wan said the attack forced the villagers to flee but they returned after the assailants had left. Abubakar Gamandi, the head of Borno's fishermen's union, confirmed the attack. "I received report from my members in the Damasak area that Boko Haram gunnies attacked Awonori village this morning where they killed seven people and took away food and livestocks," he said. Last month, residents of Damasak and surrounding villages fled their homes and crossed the border into the Niger town of Diffa, fearing Boko Haram attacks. But Wan-Wan said many residents have since returned to their farms. "People have no food to feed their families which is why they take the risk of going back to their villages to work on their farms now that the rainy season has started," he said. |
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