... 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...fighters opened fire on a group of loggers in a remote village in northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
on Saturday, killing four people, a survivor and a militia leader said.
Gunmen on cycle of violences attacked the loggers while they were loading firewood into pickup vans at Maiwa village, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital, they said.
The button men burned three vehicles laden with firewood heading to the volatile city.
"Four loggers were rubbed out by the Boko Haram button men who also burnt three vehicles loaded with firewood," said Ibrahim Liman, a leader of a militia force fighting the Lion of Islams.
He said other loggers escaped the assault.
The attackers, who rode on six cycle of violences, struck at the logging site around 4:40 p.m. (1540 GMT), said logger Haruna Dahiru.
"Sixteen of them (Boko Haram) came on six cycle of violences, riding in twos and threes, and opened fire on us without saying a word," he said.
"They killed four of our colleagues and set fire to three pickup vans we loaded with firewood to bring to Maiduguri to sell," he added.