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India reported 416 fatalities, accounting for 1.2% of deaths, in 2014.

Those bombings came less than 24 hours after another, also allegedly carried out by Boko Haram, that left 34 people dead and 80 others injured at a market in the nearby city of Yola on Tuesday.

President Muhammadu Buhari took office in May this year, and has launched intense military operations to push back Boko Haram, which have been successful and have led to significant victories against the group.

The Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed attack after attack over the past few weeks – from a bomb in a Russian plane, to a terrorist attack in Beirut, to coordinate terrorist attacks in Paris.

Maoist groups cause most terror deaths in India, while the National Democratic Front of Bodoland, a separatist organisation in the north-east, was second. He declared the report as “a fabrication from the imagination of those sympathetic to Boko Haram ways of life”.

There is little evidence of Boko Haram taking financial support from ISIS, and no Islamic State cell is thought to be operational in Nigeria.

Boko Haram reached out to the Somali-based jihadist organization al-Shabaab in mid-October, urging it to switch its loyalty from al-Qaeda to the ISIS. The organization is also active in the neighboring countries of Chad, Niger, and Cameroon. But the decrease in religious victims was offset by a 172 percent increase in the deaths of private citizens, the GTI indicates. A statement released Wednesday read, “President Buhari reassures Nigerians that his administration is very much determined to wipe out Boko Haram in Nigeria and bring all perpetrators of these heinous crimes against humanity to justice”. The group’s name, Boko Haram – “Haram” in Arabic means “forbidden” – signifies its stance against the West, particularly Western education.

The group was designated as a foreign terrorism organisation by the United States in 2013. “May God help us all”. Many have joined other sub-Saharan Africans, as well as refugees from Arab nations, in fleeing to Europe in search of sanctuary.

Another source however said the T-72 tank was recovered after a prolonged fight with Boko Haram insurgents.

Overall, terrorism is on rise around the world, according to Wednesday’s report.

There has been a nine-fold increase in deaths due to terrorism globally, rising from 3,329 in 2000 to 32,685 in 2014, according to the Global Terrorism Index 2015 report by the Institute for Economics and Peace, a think-tank based in Sydney, Australia.