... 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 have killed at least 16 farmers and left dozens missing in the latest attacks in restive northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
's Borno state, militia and residents said on Wednesday.
The civilian militia fighting the gunnies found 15 bodies in fields around Kazaa and Daraa villages, five kilometres (three miles) outside the garrison town of Monguno on Tuesday.
A farmer was also rubbed out while working near Gremari village, 13 km from the state capital Maiduguri.
"Yesterday our members recovered 15 bodies from farms around neighbouring Kazaa and Daraa villages who were killed by Boko Haram on Monday," militia leader Ibrahim Liman told AFP.
"Another 35 people have not been seen and a search will continue today (Wednesday) to find them," he said.
The farmers were mostly from camps in Monguno housing people displaced by the nine-year Islamist insurgency.
Monguno resident Mari Bulama said the opened fire on farmers at work, shooting them as they fled.
"We buried 15 of them yesterday before I left Monguno," said Bulama who arrived at Maiduguri on Tuesday from Monguno, 140 kms away.