Boko Haram attacks again
Boko Haram militants conduct more deadly raids in Nigeria
- Scores of people have died in raids on dozens of villages in northeast Nigeria's Adamawa state, a lawmaker says
- He says bodies litter villages, and there is one to bury them because residents have fled
- In Michika district, 70% of people have fled, he says, going into the mountains, Cameroon or the Adamawa state capital
Kano, Nigeria (CNN)Boko
Haram militants have killed scores of people in raids on dozens of
villages in northeast Nigeria's Adamawa state, forcing thousands to flee
into mountains and across the border into Cameroon, a lawmaker said.
For two weeks, Boko Haram
gunmen have sacked dozens of villages in Michika district, close to the
border with Cameroon, slaughtering male residents and abducting others.
"They
move house to house, killing people, including the old, abducting women
and children and burning homes," Adamu Kamale, a lawmaker representing
Michika district in the Adamawa state House of Assembly, said Tuesday.
Villages
are littered with bodies, and there is one to bury them because
residents have fled to escape the onslaught, Kamale said.
"They slaughter people like animals," he said.
"Now,
70% of the people in the district have been dislodged from the homes.
Some of them have run into the mountains, while others have crossed into
Cameroon or fled to Yola," the capital of Adamawa state, Kamale said.
A
relief official said the raids prompted an exodus of villagers to Yola,
where they are staying in camps for people displaced by Boko Haram.
Humanitarian
workers have been unable to reach residents who fled into the
mountains, said Mohammed Kanar, head of the National Emergency
Management Agency for northeast Nigeria.
"We
are aware there are people trapped in the mountains but they are
inaccessible. The security situation is a challenge in reaching them and
offering them humanitarian assistance," Kanar said.
The
insurgents started the killing spree in Michika township and moved into
villages including Murva, Bororo, Ghumci, Garta-Kasa, Kamale, Boka,
Futu and Kwabaride.
Michika has been
under Boko Haram's control since the group seized it in September, along
with several other districts in Adamawa and neighboring Borno state. It
has declared them part of its caliphate.
Kamale
said the military has not responded to complaints that he and other
community leaders lodged, calling for its intervention.
"Sometimes
we alert the military when they are advancing on villages before they
attack, but no action is taken to stop them," he said.
"These
insurgents have been killing with impunity. When they attack a village,
they will sleep there for the night after the slaughter and move on the
next morning," the lawmaker said.
There has been no reaction from the military to Kamale's allegation.
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