Boko Haram fighters killed a woman as she was in labour
during what is feared could be the deadliest attack in the militants’ six-year
insurgency, Amnesty International claimed on Thursday.
The human rights group
said one witness to the assault on Baga, on the shores of Lake Chad in
northeast Nigeria, told them the woman was shot by indiscriminate fire that
also cut down small children. “Half of the baby boy (was) out and she died like
this,” the unnamed witness was quoted as saying. Amnesty said this week that
hundreds of people, if not more, may have been killed in the attack, which
began on January 3 and is thought to have targeted civilian vigilantes helping
the military. “They killed so many people. I saw maybe around 100 killed at
that time in Baga. I ran to the bush. As we were running, they were shooting
and killing,” a man in his fifties was quoted as saying. Another woman added:
“I don’t know how many but there were bodies everywhere we looked.” The
testimony chimes with claims from local officials that huge numbers were killed
and that of witnesses spoken to by AFP, who described seeing decomposing bodies
littering the streets.
Via.-PM News
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