Boko Haram ‘burns children alive’ in northeast Nigeria

Those who survived the attack in the village and ran to the nearby village of Gamori were attacked by female suicide bombers from Boko Haram. The Boko Haram fighters retreated only after military reinforcements arrived with heavier weapons, they said.

As people fled toward the village of Gomari Kerkeri, three women carrying suicide bombs tried to make their way into a crowd, Anka said, but they “were intercepted and subsequently got blown up”.

A survivor, identified as Alamin Bakura, told AP the shooting and explosions continued “for almost four hours”.

Suspected Boko Haram members stormed a refugee encampment in northeast Nigeria, killing at least 60 people, many of them children burned to death in makeshift homes. He said they have resorted to fighting with improvised explosives devices (IED) and remained a force only in Borno state.

As the world remains transfixed on Syria-based ISIS, which has hit western nations, Boko Haram’s attacks have escalated.

Gunmen riding motorcycles raided a Nigerian village under the cover of darkness, killing at least 80 people and setting homes ablaze, officials said.

“Many feel that at a moment such as this we have been abandoned by the global community – if you could only see what the diplaced people are going through…” he says.

Villagers said they fled into the bush when the assailants entered Dalori. But I thank God I escaped with my children’.

President Buhari extended his condolences to all the people of Chibok, Gombi and Dolari who lost loved ones in the recent attacks and prayed that the Almighty God will comfort them and grant the injured persons quick recovery.

One of those who had returned to the village on Sunday told one of our correspondents that insurgents including suicide bombers attacked the town, which also spilled over to the Internally Displaced Persons’ camps around the village.

The six-year Islamist uprising has killed about 20,000 people and driven 2.5 million from their homes. Boko Haram has been attacking several targets in Nigeria over the last week. The group which seeks to impose strict sharia law in mainly-Muslim northern Nigeria has also made cross border attacks into Cameroon, Chad and Niger.

An unnamed senior medical officer at the Borno State General Hospital said 55 others have been admitted into the emergency section of the health facility, following the suicide attacks, late Saturday, in Dalori and Walori settlement in the province.