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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/boko-haram-kills-2-000-people-attack-report-article-1.2071454Nigeria terror group Boko Haram kills 2,000 people in one attack, official says: report
The terror thugs attacked the town of Baga on Tuesday night and Wednesday. As many as 2,000 people died, mostly women, children and elderly, Amnesty International said.
BY David Boroff , Stephen Rex Brown
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Friday, January 9, 2015, 9:22 AM
The bloodthirsty Nigerian terror group Boko Haram killed as many as 2,000 people in a horrific attack, Amnesty International said Friday.
Hundreds of bodies were still strewn in the bush in the town of Baga, near the border with Chad. Most victims were children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough to escape the murderers.
The insurgents stormed the town, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles at terrified residents and torching buildings and homes, survivors said.
I escaped with my family in the car after seeing how Boko Haram was killing people. I saw bodies in the street, Mohamed Bukar said after fleeing to Maiduguri.
Children and women, some were crying for help.
Amnesty International called it the deadliest massacre in the history of Boko Haram, which entered infamy in 2014 when fighters kidnapped 276 schoolgirls.
The human carnage perpetrated by Boko Haram terrorists in Baga was enormous, said Muhammad Abba Gava, a spokesman for a group of poorly armed civilian fighters.
The defense group had given up on counting bodies.
No one could attend to the corpses, and even the seriously injured ones who may have died by now, Gava said.
Fighting was ongoing in the town as Nigerian ground forces attacked, backed by air strikes.
Soldiers had initially fled the area after Boko Haram militants seized a nearby key military base last week.
Another survivor, Abubakar Gulama, escaped without his family. He recalled many dead bodies on the ground and that the whole town was on fire.
The government and Red Cross were providing aid to some 2,000 people who fled the town.
The insurgency killed more than 10,000 people in 2014, according to the Council on Foreign Relations.
More than 1 million people are displaced inside Nigeria and hundreds of thousands have fled into Chad and Cameroon due to the carnage.
This is crazy.