Boko Haram burns kids alive in Nigeria, 86 dead: officials
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People walk past burnt out houses following an attack by Boko haram in Dalori village 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Maiduguri, Nigeria , Sunday Jan. 31, 2016. A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and listened to the screams of children among people burned to death in the latest attack by Nigeria s homegrown Islamic extremists.
DALORI, Nigeria >> A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children burning to death, among 86 people officials say died in the latest attack by Nigeria’s homegrown Islamic extremists.
Scores of charred corpses and bodies with bullet wounds littered the streets from Saturday night’s attack on Dalori village and two nearby camps housing 25,000 refugees, according to survivors and soldiers at the scene just 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram and the biggest city in Nigeria’s northeast.
The shooting, burning and explosions from three suicide bombers continued for nearly four hours in the unprotected area, survivor Alamin Bakura said, weeping on a telephone call to The Associated Press. He said several of his family members were killed or wounded.
The violence continued as three female suicide bombers blew up among people who managed to flee to neighboring Gamori village, killing many people, according to a soldier at the scene who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to journalists.
Troops arrived at Dalori around 8:40 p.m. Saturday but were unable to overcome the attackers, who were better armed, said soldiers who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press. The Boko Haram fighters only retreated after reinforcements arrived with heavier weapons, they said.
Journalists visited the carnage Sunday and spoke to survivors who complained it had taken too long for help to arrive from nearby Maiduguri, the military headquarters of the fight to curb Boko Haram. They said they fear another attack.
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Eighty-six bodies were collected by Sunday afternoon, according to Mohammed Kanar, area coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency. Another 62 people are being treated for burns, said Abba Musa of the State Specialist Hospital in Maiduguri.
Boko Haram has been attacking soft targets, increasingly with suicide bombers, since the military last year drove them out of towns and villages in northeastern Nigeria.
The 6-year Islamic uprising has killed about 20,000 people and driven 2.5 million from their homes.
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Despite our fancy technology, the world is still the same as it always was.
For those who argue all cultural and political values are equal, please recall this event. The inferior values of most of the non-Western world are revealed every day. Wake up people.
If you’re going to make that argument be specific. It’s Islamic values.
I agree..that seems to be the elephant in the room. As long as we do not approach the problem it will not be solved.
not only
time to wake up hon
leader of the pack
Allie. America even has anti Americans living in the same country. Scary.
Nuke them from orbit.
Sounds like a plan.
Nukes kill indiscriminately, and Boko Haram is embedded. You sound like Teddy Cruz advocating “carpet bombing”. It’s Boko Haram that indiscriminately kills women and children along with the men. You wanna put yourself on the same level as them, keep advocating nuking people.
Beside that, you’re flaunting your ignorance. We have no nukes in orbit and never will. Nobody does. It’s been forbidden since the Outer Space Treaty was ratified by the nuclear powers in 1967.
all true. It was banned in the Hanabata Days!
According to Allie et. al. the geography, culture — presumably race — in which they’re embedded are — what was the word? Oh right: “inferior”. So, carpet bombing is all well and good — as long as it’s done by a civilized people.
not my position
So they can put a giant Hubble telescope in space but not a nuke? are you sure? Just because they haven’t admitted to it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. If they have the technical capability, they always use it to it’s full extent. Similar to the NSA listening to phone calls of Europe’s leaders, they do it because they can. Treaties, laws and other obstacles will not stand in their way.
what a bunch of uptight people. it’s just a joke; an Aliens reference. sheesh you people all fail.
I always aim downwards.
Is Obama going to do anything now? NO.
Geez. I was a firefighter for 28 years and have seen many tragedies, but this is truly beyond comprehension. There has to be a reason nobody’s gone in and killed all of these animals, but for the life of me, I can’t figure out what it is.
some of the Hawaiin sovs. claiming that ISIL and other Jihadi groups are favorable to Hawaiin culture are simply wrong. They may be the first to go when these people attack Hawaii. Please listen to what the 200 sovs. extant out here are saying about how they will be favored by the enemies of America when the USA is kicked out of the state.
Who is claiming that? Name them so we can ask them directly.
don’t you attend the meetings?
I’ll be waiting to see the crab-claw sails of thousands of Arabian Gulf dhows appearing over the horizon, laden with ISIS soldiers ready to occupy Hawai’i.
I’ll be waiting … but I sure won’t be holding my breath.
allie will have graduated college at Manoa by the time ISIL comes here.
I finish this summer. But you can go online top find the fanciful rhetoric or all 200 radical sovs. who believe once the uSA is kicked out life will be much better and that ISIL will cut them a special deal. They won’t.
it’s confirmed. allie’s on crack.
10 years to get your associates is pretty long don’t you think?
Here’s the word again, all spelled out for you so you can cut and paste it anywhere you wish:
A-duhhhh…
There now…. that should save you some typing
This article and some of the comments here don’t sound liberal. And UC-Davis students were shouting, we want Sharia Law, we want Sharia law, at a protest rally just last year. I thought that Bush 41 was a whimp by Obama is even more of a whimp in my opinion.
Reading comments by Allie, Mike and their ilk can be necessary at times. A reminder of the complete depth of ignorance and stupidity we must endure.
some just tell the truth and are condemned for it
Not the same as spewing idiocy and getting condemned for it.
yep allie is a spewer alright
More blood for Allah! The religion of peace must be eradicated. It’s just too dangerous for decent people.
How do we find justice for these victims of war on humanity!? Heartbreaking news and all I can do is weep in the privacy of my home!
I don’t think America should be the world’s policeman but there are times when it is necessary for the US to intervene to stop the killing of innocent people, particularly children. The UN security council should be all over this, even Russia and China will stand against islamic terrorism. All our countries are threatened by this issue. We should be working together to put an end to islamic extremism worldwide.