Boko Haram kills children ,villagers burned to death in Nigeria

The said village is just three miles from where the Boko Haram group was established.

Yahoo! News also said that the Boko Haram attackers only retreated when the military, with high-end weapons, arrived in the village. Several of them set fire to mud-brick homes with families trapped inside.

In a statement on Monday by the spokesman for the agency, Sani Datti, NEMA said 65 persons lost their lives and 136 persons injured in the weekend attacks. He later told authorities that he could only watch helplessly as the terrorists firebomb huts amid the heartbreaking screams of children burning to death inside.

Resident Adamu Kyari told CNN they then slept the night in area bushes with no blankets.

On Sunday, there were approximately 86 casualties and 62 villagers who suffered burns and are under treatment.

Since May past year, a renewed offensive by the Nigerian military has led to the recovery of vast territories from the militants, but the group is still able to carry out suicide bombings in addition to hit and run attacks which often result in high death tolls. “When we came back in the morning the entire community had been razed”, he added.

Three female suicide bombers blew up among people who managed to flee to neighboring Gamori village, killing many, according to survivors of the attacks.

Villagers who spoke to journalists on Sunday said that they thought it had taken too long for soldiers to arrive from the city of Maiduguri, which is located near Dalori.

Kanar said normalcy had returned to the area as those that fled in the wake of the attack had returned.

The extremist group, based in northern Nigeria, killed 6,644 people in 2014, an increase of more than 300% from the previous year, according to the latest tally from the Global Terrorism Index.

The Boko Haram terrorist group, whose name is literally translated “Western education is forbidden”, is believed to be even more deadly than Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

Boko Haram has killed about 20,000 people and displaced more than 2 million Nigerians in a seven-year campaign to establish its version of Islamic law in Africa’s biggest economy and top oil producer.