FOXNEWS] A vigilante group says 25 people have been killed during an attack by the vigilantes and a reprisal by Islamic snuffies in Nigeria's northeast.These are the first major fatalities reported in the region since dozens of students were killed, some burned alive, earlier this month.
Vigilante leader Aliko Musa said his group stormed villages over the weekend to hunt members of the banned 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...
terrorist organization. He said Boko Haram retaliated and that five vigilantes and 20 civilians -- mostly fishermen and traders -- were killed.
Lt. Haruna Muhammed Sani of Nigeria's military said 20 civilians and one vigilante were killed in the violence.