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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Mounted Boko Haram gunmen attack village |
| 2016-04-25 |
| [NEWS24] Kaduna - Suspected 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... gunnies on horseback killed at least 11 people in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... this week, two civilian vigilantes assisting the military told AFP on Thursday. The attack on Zango village, in the Gulani district around 150 km south of the Yobo state capital, Damaturu, happened overnight on Tuesday to Wednesday, said Aisami Mamman. It came two weeks after a similar attack on two nearby villages left at least 20 dead, he added. "They [Boko Haram] came around midnight [23:00 GMT Tuesday] and started firing gunshots in the village. This prompted residents to flee into the bush," said Mamman. "They pursued them, shooting at them while others set fire to the whole village. The whole village was burnt. Eleven people were killed and several others were maimed, six of them critically. "They were brought here to Damaturu where they are receiving treatment for gunshot wounds." The motive for the attack was not immediately clear but previous strikes have seen Boko Haram steal cattle or foodstuffs. The hit-and-run attack has been a trademark of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group affiliate but such incidents have become rarer because of a concerted military counter-offensive in the northeast. Troops have over the last year wrested back territory lost to the snuffies in 2014, scattering fighters and cutting off their supply lines. Sacked Boko Haram fighters have conducted a number of attacks on remote villages after arriving on horseback and even bicycles because of a shortage of fuel for vehicles or cycle of violences. Mamman suggested the attackers in Zango came from the Sambisa Forest area of neighbouring Borno, where Boko Haram has long had camps. "Exactly two weeks ago there was a similar attack on two villages nearby. They attacked Gurum and Dokshi villages," he said in an account of both incidents supported by another militia member. "They burnt them completely and killed more than 20 residents." |
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