Monday 7 October 2013

Boko Haram At It Again, At least 20 Killed in Fresh Attacks.




At least 20 people were killed when Islamist group Boko Haram attacked a town in northeast Nigeria, triggering clashes with troops stationed there, the military said on Sunday.
Reuters reported that a spokesman for Nigerian forces in north-eastern Borno State, which lies at the heart of a four-year-old Islamist insurgency, said the Islamists crept into the town of Damboa in the early hours of Saturday...

They killed five worshippers at a mosque as they said their morning prayers, he said.
“While they were unleashing their mayhem, troops engaged the terrorists, killing 15 in the process while others fled,” the military spokesman, Captain Aliyu Danja, said in a statement obtained by Reuters.
The military often gives significantly higher casualty figures for insurgents than for its own men, and it is usually not possible to verify them independently.
Despite Military efforts to end the Boko Haram insurgency since May, it remains the biggest security threat to Nigeria.
Its targets have traditionally been security forces, Christians or Muslim clerics who speak out against it, but its fighters have increasingly turned their sights on civilians in the past few months – massacring hundreds in roadside attacks or assaults on Western-style schools they consider sacrilegious.
Nigerian fighter jets last week bombed camps belonging to suspected Islamist militants in northeast Nigeria in response to a massacre of students at an agricultural college that killed at least 41.


Posted by Amaka.
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