Abuja: Militant Group Boko Haram had attacked on a small city on the northern border of Nigeria with the city become witness of massacre of around 2,000 people on January 9, 2015.
It had been quoted by International media that hundreds of bodies – too many to count – remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International described as the “deadliest massacre” in the history of Boko Haram.
It had been notable that this is the deadliest attack in the history of Boko Haram in its five-year long insurgency in northern Nigeria.
A spokesperson of government said, “Security forces have responded rapidly, and have deployed significant military assets and conducted air strikes against militant targets.”
District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents.
Muhammad Abba Gava, a spokesman for poorly armed civilians in a defence group that fights Boko Haram, told the Associated Press said, “The human carnage perpetrated by Boko Haram terrorists in Baga was enormous.”
Notify that Boko Haram extremists are opposing western-style education and secular governance in Nigeria. They carried out a multi-day attack in the northeast of Nigeria, focusing on the town of Baga.
The multi-day rampage focused on Baga and the surrounding towns and villages.
Around 16 towns around Baga area had been destroyed by these militants.
Bureau Report
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