The gunmen reportedly rounded up a group of men in Izghe village and shot them, before going door-to-door and killing anyone they found.<\/p>\n
Boko Haram, which claims to be fighting to create an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, is notorious for extreme violence and indiscriminate attacks.<\/p>\n
The senator for Borno state, where the attack took place, has told the BBC that 106 people were killed in the latest attack.<\/p>\n
Ali Ndume said around 100 Islamist militants attacked Izghe for five hours on Saturday evening, without any intervention from the army.<\/p>\n
He said the military recently withdrew from the area after nine soldiers were killed in an ambush last week.<\/p>\n
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Residents who fled the attack in Izghe said some of the victims were shot, while others had their throats slit.<\/p>\n
“All the dead bodies of the victims are still lying in the streets,” resident Abubakar Usman told Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n
“We fled without burying them, fearing the terrorists were still lurking in the bushes.”<\/p>\n
Other witnesses described how the attackers had arrived on Saturday evening in trucks and motorcycles.<\/p>\n
They asked the men in the village to gather, and then they hacked and shot them to death.<\/p>\n
More than 30 people were killed in the town of Konduga, also in Borno state, earlier this week in an attack blamed on Boko Haram.<\/p>\n
Following the attack in Konduga, the governor of Borno state, Kashim Shettima, called for more troops to be deployed to combat Boko Haram militants fighting in the area.<\/p>\n
Numerous villages in the area around the state capital of Maiduguri have been attacked in recent months, despite the state being under emergency rule.<\/p>\n
Frustrated with the army’s efforts to combat the rebellion, President Goodluck Jonathan replaced his top military brass on 16 January.<\/p>\n
The attack on Izghe will be the biggest since those new appointments.<\/p>\n
Boko Haram has killed many hundreds of Christians and Muslims since it launched a campaign of mass violence in 2009.<\/p>\n
Source:BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Suspected Islamist militants have raided a Nigerian village and murdered dozens, according to witnesses. The gunmen reportedly rounded up a group of men in Izghe village and shot them, before going door-to-door and killing anyone they found. Officials said they suspected the Boko Haram group was behind the attack. Boko Haram, which claims to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[14],"yoast_head":"\n
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