10/01/2015

As many as 2,000 feared dead in Boko Haram attack

Hundreds of bodies remain strewn in the bush in Nigeria from an Islamic extremist attack that Amnesty International suggested is the deadliest massacre in the history of Boko Haram. Mike Omeri, the government spokesman on the insurgency, said fighting continued yesterday for Baga, a town on the border with Chad where insurgents seized a key military base on January 3rd and attacked again on Wednesday. ?Security forces have responded rapidly, and have deployed significant military assets...
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