{"id":19853,"date":"2014-05-21T10:30:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T10:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=19853"},"modified":"2014-05-21T10:30:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T10:30:34","slug":"nigeria-village-attack-kills-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/05\/nigeria-village-attack-kills-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria village attack ‘kills 17’"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Islamist group Boko Haram is accused of killing 17 people in an attack on a village in north-east Nigeria, close to where hundreds of schoolgirls were seized.<\/p>\n
It comes a day after 118 people died in a twin bomb attack in the central city of Jos, also blamed on Boko Haram.<\/p>\n
In the latest attack, Boko Haram fighters reportedly spent hours killing and looting in the village of Alagarno.<\/p>\n
Alagarno is near Chibok, from where the schoolgirls were abducted last month.<\/p>\n
The abductions caused international outrage and have put pressure on the Nigerian authorities to deal with the threat from Boko Haram.<\/p>\n
People in north-east Nigeria are extremely vulnerable to attacks because many areas are no go zones for the military and the insurgents operate freely, the BBC’s Will Ross reports from the country.<\/p>\n
Witnesses in Alagarno said the suspected Boko Haram fighters arrived close to midnight, and killed and looted for hours before leaving in stolen vehicles.<\/p>\n
One survivor told the BBC that every single building in the village had been torched.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Islamist group Boko Haram is accused of killing 17 people in an attack on a village in north-east Nigeria, close to where hundreds of schoolgirls were seized. It comes a day after 118 people died in a twin bomb attack in the central city of Jos, also blamed on Boko Haram. In the latest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":19893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[436,14,125],"yoast_head":"\n