Boko Haram gunned down 97 people praying in mosques during Ramadan
According to a report by AFP , Boko Haram extremists gunned down nearly 100 Muslims praying in mosques in the northeast during the holy...
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The attack Wednesday night on the town of Kukawa came the day after the Islamic extremist group attacked a village 35 kilometers (22 miles) away and killed another 48 men and boys, according to witnesses who counted the dead.
Gava said his group's fighters in Kukawa said some militants also broke into people's homes, killing women and children as they prepared the evening meal.The people of Kukawa were in several mosques, praying ahead of breaking their daylong fast, when the extremists attacked. They killed 97 people, mainly men, said self-defense spokesman Abbas Gava and a senior government official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to give information to reporters.
Kukawa is 180 kilometers (110 miles) northeast of
Maiduguri, the biggest city in northeast Nigeria and the birthplace of
Boko Haram.
On Tuesday night, the extremists invaded the
village of Mussaram, ordered men and women to separate and then opened
fire on the men and boys, witnesses said.
"A
total of 48 males died on the spot while 17 others escaped with serious
injuries," said Maidugu Bida, a self-defense official? based in nearby
Monguno who helped bury the dead.
On
Monday, two suicide bombers blew themselves up prematurely in a village
outside Maiduguri just an hour before the arrival of Nigeria's Vice
President Yemi Osinbanjo. He visited some of the hundreds of thousands
of people displaced by the 5-year-old Islamic uprising that has killed
more than 13,000 people and driven 1.5 million from their homes.
Some
of those killed in attacks in the past month had only just returned to
rebuild towns and villages recaptured this year from Boko Haram by a
multinational army.
