Alwaght- Boko Haram Takfiri terrorist group has killed 86 people, including burning children alive, in their recent attack on villages in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday.
The Saturday night assault on the outskirts of the Nigerian city of Maiduguri – the birthplace of Boko Haram – lasted for hours, targeting villages and camps housing some 25,000 refugees. Horrifying details of the attacks emerged on Sunday.
By Sunday afternoon, 100 bodies had collected, officials said, adding that another 62 victims were being treated for burns.
The Takfiri terrorists launched the attack on the village of Dalori, where scores of charred corpses and bodies with bullet wounds could be seen lying in the streets.
Reports say Boko Haram extremists firebombed huts. Witnesses say they heard the screams of children burning to death from a hiding place in a tree.
After scores of villagers had been murdered in Dalori, Boko Haram attackers targeted the neighboring village of Gamori, where three female suicide bombers blew themselves up among people who had managed to escape the first wave of violence, a soldier at the scene told AP.
About 20,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million driven from their homes since the Nigeria-based terror group launched a military campaign in 2009. The military managed to drive most of the extremists out of the towns and villages of northeastern Nigeria last year, and since then Boko Haram has been attacking soft targets, increasingly with suicide bombers. Boko Haram declared allegiance to the ISIS terrorist group in 2015.
