At least 2,000 people killed by Boko Haramin Nigeria
A report said that the town of Baga was razed and as many as 2,000 people were killed in the attack.
“This marks a disturbing and bloody escalation of Boko Haram’s ongoing onslaught,” said Nigeria researcher for Amnesty International Daniel Eyre.
District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents.
According to the reports of the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations, the 5-year insurgency killed more than 10,000 people last year alone. More than a million people are displaced inside Nigeria and hundreds of thousands have also fled across its borders into Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria.
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