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Boko Haram: Hundreds found dead in Nigerian town of Damasak, allegedly killed by militants
[ABC.NET.AU] Hundreds of people have been found dead in the north-east Nigerian town of Damasak, apparently victims of Boko Haram... 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... myrmidons, residents and officials said. "Dead bodies were found in houses, streets and many more in the Damasak River which has dried up," local man Kaumi Kusur said, adding the victims were buried in 20 mass graves at the weekend. Mohammed Sadiq, another local who helped in the burials on Saturday, put the corpse count at more than 400. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... the Borno state government did not state a precise figure, giving a toll of "hundreds". Troops from Chad and Niger retook Damasak from Boko Haram on March 9 as part of a regional offensive to combat the bad boys, who captured the town in November last year. A Chadian security source said at the time that some 200 rebel fighters were killed in the offensive, as well as 10 soldiers. On March 20, Chadian army front man Colonel Azem Bermandoa Agouna said about 100 bodies were found in a mass grave under a bridge just outside Damasak. Some had been decapitated while others shot. Colonel Agouna said he estimated the massacre probably occurred in January. In the latest discovery, Mr Sadiq said the bodies had been covered by sand from the encroaching desert. "We were mobilised by the state authorities to bury them and we did it accordingly," he said. Posted by: Fred 2015-04-28 |
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