Boko Haram extremists last
night killed almost 150
Nigerian Muslims praying in
mosques before breaking
their Ramadan fast.
The militants mowed down
men and children in three
remote villages in the north-
eastern Borno state yesterday
– and shot women preparing
food at home, according to
witnesses.
They slaughtered residents
and set houses ablaze in the
group’s bloodiest day of
attacks since President
Muhammadu Buhari came to
power five weeks ago.
Gunmen killed at least 97
people in Kukawa, the worst-
affected village, according to
a local called ‘Kolo’ who said
he had counted the bodies. A
fisherman who saw the attack
corroborated the figure.
Kolo said: ‘They wiped out
the immediate family of my
uncle… They killed his
children, about five of them,
and set his entire house
ablaze.’
Another witness in Kukawa,
Babami Alhaji Kolo, who fled
to the state capital Maiduguri,
said more than 50 militants
had stormed the village.
‘The terrorists first descended
on Muslim worshippers in
various mosques who were
observing the Maghrib prayer
shortly after breaking their
fast,’ he said.
‘They… opened fire on the
worshippers who were mostly
men and young children.
They spared nobody.
‘In fact, while some of the
terrorists waited and set
most of the corpses on fire,
others proceeded to houses
and shot indiscriminately at
women who were preparing
food.’
In two other villages near the
town of Monguno, meanwhile,
gunmen killed 48 people and
injured 11 others, local
politician Mohammed Tahir
and witnesses said.
‘They selected particular male
residents from among the
crowd of worshippers… and
opened fire on them before
setting the two villages on
fire and razing them to the
ground,’ Mr Tahir said.
Another resident who
managed to escape said the
militants arrived in vans and
on motorbikes.
‘They killed 48 people and
injured several others but
many of us managed to
escape amid volleys of
bullets,’ said the resident,
who asked not to be named
for safety reasons.
Kukawa is around 30 miles
away from the two villages
near Monguno.
All three are located near
Lake Chad, which straddles
Nigeria, Niger, Chad and
Cameroon and has been a
focal point of the unrest.
Boko Haram has intensified
its campaign of violence
since Buhari came to power
on May 29 vowing to crush
the jihadists’ bloody uprising
that has claimed at least
15,000 lives.
Since then, some 400 people
have been killed in attacks
blamed on the extremists,
who have sworn allegiance to
the Islamic State group,
according to an Agence
France-Presse tally.
Boko Haram had captured
dozens of towns and villages
in the north-east last year,
but has since been pushed
back by a four-nation military
offensive that kicked off in
February.
Despite their territorial losses,
the insurgents have kept up
their deadly raids, explosions
and suicide attacks on ‘soft’
targets such as markets and
mosques.
A new regional fighting force
comprising 8,700 troops from
Nigeria, Niger, Chad,
Cameroon and Benin is due
to deploy at the end of the
month to try definitively end
the insurgency.
But they will face huge
challenges in countering the
guerrilla tactics to which
Boko Haram has increasingly
resorted.
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/boko-haram-slaughter-150-muslims-praying-in-mosques-before-breaking-their-ramadan-fast/

Is terrible... dis is barbaric!

This is horrible, what exactly do these people want?

Sorry, but let buhari do his job please

different different figures 37, 48, 100, 140, 150 OK as a mathematician let's take the average to get the mean number of death butu why na ndi boko ogini mere unu ji wee na egbokasi ndi mmadu chineke na elekwa unu anya o

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I was here

Oh my God.150.....people. Rip to the dead

Nothing loss. These people were breaking their fast in a mosque. So they're all going straight to Al Jennah. So no wahala. You can all go back to sleep. If Buhari can sleep through this, who're you to care so much?

Boko haram is a product of poverty, illiteracy, backwardness and subservient culture.

Following

"boko haram here nd dere i didnt border 2 open d previous boko boys tread since its getting 2 much i must comment"
wit d few points of mine i hope i av commented on this tread

my most sincere condolences the families that are bereaved right now! God bless the departed. May the people behind these attrocious acts burn in the fires of a thousand suns!
And may buhari not pull a jonathan on us!

ON again

Sad sad sad! How can humans be this mean? Why do they just love to shed innocent blood? This is something else. Those behind this killing, I hope mother nature will pluck them off her earth. What goes around must come around for they and their sponsors.

I don't see this boko boys being flushed out of Nigeria anytime soon. It's a monster that has come to stay. Too bad.

Ddullad has not been saying anything about Boko Haram daily killing. Same as Adesina, the "Wailing Wailier spokesman". They just gloss over it and people are dieing. Painfully, these same people queued in the sun and rain to elect the DD.
By the way, I thought we now have military command in Maiduguri? Where are these Boko people "resurrecting" from to attack?

Curlieweed:
Nothing loss. These people were breaking their fast in a mosque. So they're all going straight to Al Jennah. So no wahala. You can all go back to sleep. If Buhari can sleep through this, who're you to care so much?

May God grant them entry to paradise!

dominique:
This is horrible, what exactly do these people want?

Arewanistan republic where they can freely practice sharia.

An attack on bokoharam is an attack on the North - Buhari

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they don kill northerners finish


do we have a sitting president @all...and I heard military base has been moved to Maiduguri why all dis attacks,, can't they post some military men into all dese small small villages

This is CONDEMNABLE!
Its barbarism taken too far!!

Baba Buhari; we love and supported you and still supports you BUT the time to have planned on how to tackle these murderous terrorists was several months ago ( while the campaigns lasted); the time to DECISIVELY ATTACK and wipe out BH is this minute, not tomorrow!

I thought the Daura President promised to destroy Boko Haram instantly. Hahahahaha now I am laughing. All the APC does now is making excuses.

It's saddens, now that a retired General is in power these barbaric attacks is on the increase, may God gives the bereaved families the fortitude to bear this huge losses.

Super1Star:
Boko haram is a product of poverty, illiteracy, backwardness and subservient culture.

YOU SEE YOUR MISERABLE LIFE SO GEJ AND IHEJIRIKA WASN'T THE ONE THAT CREATED BOKO BOYZ JUST TO PUNISH THE NORTH ANYMORE.

mike404:
YOU SEE YOUR MISERABLE LIFE SO GEJ AND IHEJIRIKA WASN'T THE ONE THAT CREATED BOKO BOYZ JUST TO PUNISH THE NORTH ANYMORE.

Who is this tormented soul that is bitter over his life?

Another scam like the Chibok nonsense.

Super1Star:

Who is this tormented soul that is bitter over his life?

Guy you just a mess... #getalife

Okay, let's see which federal government northern elders will blame fir not adequately protecting them, the one run by their brother?

Super1Star:

Who is this tormented soul that is bitter over his life?

PHOOLISH HEDIOT

May their soul and the souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace.... Amen!