Gunmen Kill at Least 62 in Adamawa, Borno Including in Church
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(Reuters) – Suspected insurgents armed with guns and explosives killed at least 62 people in northeast Nigeria, including at a church service, in a region where Islamist sect Boko Haram is resisting a military crackdown, witnesses said on Monday.
They killed 22 people by setting off bombs and firing into the congregation in the Catholic church in Waga Chakawa village in Adamawa state on Sunday, before burning houses and taking residents hostage during a four-hour siege, witnesses said.
On Monday, a separate assault by suspected members of the shady sect killed at least 40 people in Kawuri village, in remote northeastern Borno state, security officials said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for either attack.
President Goodluck Jonathan is struggling to contain Boko Haram in remote rural regions in the country’s northeast corner, where the sect launched an uprising in 2009.
Boko Haram, which wants to impose sharia law on a country split roughly equally between Christians and Muslims, has killed thousands over the past four and a half years and is considered the biggest security risk in Africa’s top oil exporter and second largest economy after South Africa.
Its fighters’ favorite targets have traditionally been security forces, politicians who oppose them and Christian minorities in the largely Muslim north.
The spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Yola, Reverend Father Raymond Danbouye, confirmed 22 people killed in the church were buried at a funeral on Monday.
The military and police did not respond to requests for comment but one army source confirmed the church attack, asking not to be named because he wasn’t authorized to speak with the media.
Reuters
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Mr. President for how long do Nigerians wait to get rid of this problem that is eating out of our fabrics. It easier said than done the Military are just toothless bull dogs, I remember statement made by Hassan Islanders Katsina at the beginning of the civil war in Nigeria that they will crush the Biafra’s in days this war lasted about three good years. The current defense chief said that he will crush Boko haram by April and yesterday they kill about 62 innocent people when do we learn. It is time for this security apparatus to to surrender and take off their uniforms and let ordinary people fight the battle themselves. The head of Army, Navy, Air force, Police, SSS should go home in shame.
Sometimes last year in the USA in Boston Massachusetts the entire City stop to fish out two people that trouble the city within 24 hours they were being produced since 2009 we don’t know the Boko haram were to fish them out may be when they kill son or wife and the daughter of those in power maybe something can be done.
It is time to stop the blood shed, ley there be peace.
.May the Lord bless federal republic of Nigeria.Hassan .