Up to 2,000 killed in new Boko Haram attacks in northern Nigeria
January 09, 2015
As many as 2,000 people have been killed, and several churches burned, in the latest attacks by Boko Haram on Christian villages in Nigeria, the Fides news service reports.
The attacks occurred in the town of Baga, where Boko Haram had earlier defeated a multinational peacekeeping force. Thousands of residents of the town and surrounding region have fled.
Father Patrick Tor Alumuki, a spokesman for the Abuja archdiocese, told Fides that casualty reports were sketchy, and observed that with presidential elections looming in February, the government has shown a tendency to understate the figures. He said that the Boko Haram forces have been strengthened recently by the addition of recruits from among Islamic radicals in Libya and Mali.
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