86 slain as Boko Haram burns families alive in Nigerian village

It was earlier reported that 67 people were brutally killed by Boko Haram over the weekend in Dalori village of outskirts of Maiduguri and Konduga Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno state.

The Boko Haram jihadi extremists have been concentrating their terrorist efforts at soft targets, attempting to spread fear and terror through attacking relatively helpless villages and killing women and children, while looting and stealing or killing livestock.

The attack spotlighted the Islamist insurgency’s brutal punishment of those fleeing its violence.

Homes were seen smoldering and in piles of ashes in the village of Dalori, Nigeria following a Boko Haram rampage Saturday night.

“Boko Haram controlled a large slice of Nigeria”™s northeast until early previous year, when it was driven out of much of the region by Nigeria”™s military. Several of them set fire to mud-brick homes with families trapped inside. “Many people ran to the bush including myself”, he said.

Bulama Malum, an eyewitness said he saw more than 20 bodies burnt beyond recognition and that 15 villagers were missing.

“While people were running for their dear lives…three female suicide bombers attempted to make their way into the crowd…and subsequently got blown up”, military spokesman, Colonel Mustapha Ankas, said.

The attack was swiftly condemned by the European Union, which said it was committed to supporting regional African states in the fight against such extremist groups. “We could hear soldiers battling with the Boko Haram attackers”.

One Alhaji Dambatta who is a member of the Civilian-JTF told newsmen that some dead bodies are yet to be evacuated from Dalori village as all those who died as a result of the suicide bombings have not been discovered. The shooting, burning and explosions from three suicide bombers went on for four hours, in unprotected areas, claimed survivors.

At least 65 people were killed and 136 others injured, Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency said on its official Twitter account Monday, though some accounts put the death toll higher. At least 12 were killed Wednesday in an attack on another village in Borno.

Resident Adamu Kyari‎ added: “We slept in the bush with no blankets despite the chilling weather”.

Also known as Islamic State’s West’s Africa province, Boko Haram was responsible for 6,644 deaths in 2014 as compared to 6,073 killings by ISIS.