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| 16 Niger Villagers Killed in Boko Haram Attack |
| 2015-07-19 |
| [AnNahar] 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... jihadists killed 16 civilians in an attack this week on a southeast Niger village, near the Nigerian border, a local official said Saturday. "On July 15, Boko Haram elements fired on locals who were praying in a village near the town of Bosso," said Bako Mamadou, mayor of Bosso, a town in southeast Niger on the border with Nigeria, where the armed Islamist group originated. "They killed 15 people on the spot and another person succumbed later to their wounds," Mamadou said on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? According to the Bosso mayor, four others were maimed in the attack. Meanwhile the Niger army said Saturday it had killed 32 Boko Haram fighters from July 15-17 during "sweeping up" operations following the July 15 attack by "Boko Haram elements". The defense ministry added that three Islamist fighters were taken into custody, adding that Chadian soldiers also took part in the operation. |
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