[url]http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/boko-haram-may-have-killed-thousands-attack-say-experts-n283011[/url]
[quote]Terror experts and U.S. officials say a Boko Haram assault this week on a small city on the northern border of Nigeria may have killed as many as 2,000 civilians.Many survivors fled into the nearby waters of Lake Chad, where some drowned and where others remain marooned on small islands, menaced by hippos, said a local government official.
District leader Musa Alhaji Bukar told the BBC 2,000 residents from Baga and 16 other towns had been killed by the radical Islamist terror group, and that Baga was now "virtually nonexistent," which would make the massacre among the most deadly terror attacks in history.
The attacks, a coordinated assault on the city and nearby towns, were brutal even for a terror group with a history of mass killings. According to the U.S. counterterrorism official, Boko Haram militants went door-to-door killing families, then strategically placed improvised explosive devices in the streets to funnel survivors into areas where firing squads were pre-positioned. "They were mowed down" by automatic weapons fire, the official said.
The villages were then set on fire, and militants moved on to other areas to repeat the process, officials told the BBC.
Those who survived the deadly gauntlet tried to take refuge in Lake Chad, huddling on islands near the shallow lake's marshy shore.[/quote]
Didn't see this posted before when I searched "boko" in recent threads, so sorry if this is late.
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Boko wasn't in the title and it was only quoted in the title post, which I think isn't picked up by the search, so can't blame you. Just a heads up.
Why does it take an expert? What a grabby title.
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Boko wasn't in the title and it was only quoted in the title post, which I think isn't picked up by the search, so can't blame you. Just a heads up.[/QUOTE]
Oh oops. I guess a mod can lock this thread or something.
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