Monday, February 17, 2014

Nigeria's Boko Haram Militants Attack Another Christian Village Slaughtering 100

BBC

Nigeria's Boko Haram Targets Christian Town And Fishing Village In Latest Attacks -- CNN

Kano, Nigeria (CNN) -- Dozens of residents in northeastern Nigeria have been killed in two separate attacks launched by Boko Haram Islamists, according to officials and residents.

Scored of Islamist insurgents dressed in military uniforms stormed the Christian farming village of Izghe, in Borno state, late Saturday and opened sporadic fire on residents, killing at least 106 people in an attack specifically targeted at male residents.

The gunmen, who arrived in the village riding in trucks and on several motorcycles, opened fire and hacked male residents they had assembled in the village square. They moved door to door in search of male residents who were hiding.

The attack prompted an exodus of hundreds of panic-stricken residents of nearby villages to the neighboring Madagali district in Adamawa state.

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More News On Today's Boko Haram Massacre In Nigeria

Nigeria's Boko Haram 'in village massacre' -- BBC
Suspected Islamists kill 90 in Nigeria village raid-witnesses -- Reuters
Islamist Militants Kill Scores in Remote Northeast Nigeria -- New York Times
Over 100 dead in Nigeria attack -- Sydney Morning Herald
Dozens killed in Boko Haram attack -- Al Jazeera
At least 100 killed in Nigerian terror attack -- UPI
Suspected Islamists carry out deadly village raid in Nigeria -- Deutsche Welle
106 killed by Boko Haram gunmen, says Senator Ndume -- PM News Nigeria

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