'Dozens killed' hours after
Jonathan said he had ordered a
"total war" against Boko Haram on
thursday...
'Dozens killed' in attack on Nigeria villages - The
latest attacks came hours after Nigerian President
Goodluck Jonathan said he had ordered a "total
war" against the group on thursday.
President Jonathan orders "total war" against
Boko Haram as the group is blamed for killing 35
people in Borno state.
Gunmen have killed at least 35 people in three
villages in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, a
military source and residents said.
Dozens of men dressed in military uniform
stormed Gumushi, Amuda and Arbokko in all-
terrain trucks and on motorcycles on Wednesday,
near the border with Cameroon.
"The insurgents hurled petrol bombs into homes,
setting them ablaze and shot residents as they
tried to escape," a military officer told the AFP
news agency about the attack on Gumushi.
He blamed the violence on the armed group Boko
Haram, which has stepped up deadly raids in
northeast Nigeria in recent months, pillaging and
burning entire villages and killing residents as
part of its five-year-old campaign to establish an
Islamic state in the north.
News of the latest attacks came hours after
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said he had
ordered a "total war" against the group, which last
month abducted 276 schoolgirls in Borno. Nearly
220 of them are still missing.
Jonathan said that he had authorised security
forces to use "any means necessary under the
law".
The northeastern state has been under a state of
emergency since 2013.
Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege, reporting from the
capital Abuja, said the president's speech had no
information on what his government was doing to
bring the abducted girls back home.
The phrase "total war" was used by Idriss Deby,
the president of neighbouring Chad, following a
meeting of West African countries in Paris in mid-
May, designed to define a common strategy to
fight Boko Haram.
This is dummy text. It is not meant to be read. Accordingly, it is difficult to figure out when to end it. But then, this is dummy text. It is not meant to be read. Period.
ConversionConversion EmoticonEmoticon