Death toll in Maiduguri Boko Haram attack rises to 85

On Saturday, the bloodthirsty gang of Islamic radicals massacred at least 86 people in a Nigerian village near a refugee camp, burning alive children screaming in pain inside huts which they set on fire, The Guardian and other publications reported.

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”. Survivor Alamin Bakura told the AP that several of his family members were killed or wounded in the the attack, which lasted for almost four hours.

‘When we came back in the morning the entire community has been razed.

Houses were torched, three female suicide bombers detonated devices, and militants opened fire near Nigeria’s largest northeastern city in Saturday’s attack.

WorldStage Newsonline- A total of 65 persons lost their lives and 136 persons injured following the weekend attacks on Dalori village by insurgents, according to a statement from national Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). “Boko Haram is no longer able to operate freely as in the past or control territories as they did”, he said.

It is the third deadly attack in northeastern Nigeria in less than a week in which suicide bombers attacked two other towns killing more than 20 people. Mohammed was commanding officer when soldiers killed around 640 unarmed detainees after Boko Haram extremists attacked Giwa barracks in northeast Maiduguri city, according to Amnesty.

The European Union, which claims to maintain its commitment to supporting African states in the fight against the menace posed by regional Islamist groupings, quickly issued a loose condemnation of the attack.

At least 86 people, including a number of children, were killed and scores injured in an suspected Boko Haram attack on a village in north-eastern Nigeria, the army and local residents said on Sunday.

In addition to the eighty-six casualties, another sixty-two people are being treated for burns. The extremist group based in northern Nigeria killed 6,644 people in 2014, an increase of more than 300 percent from the previous year, according to the latest tally from the Global Terrorism Index.