Dubai: In Nigeria, at least 30 people have been killed in fresh Boko Haram raids on two villages in northeast part of the country. A local group said, the gun and knife-toting assailants on bikes and in vans stormed the remote villages of Yakshari and Kachifa and killed 30 people in two separate attacks on Friday and Saturday.
Dozens of people have been killed in Boko Haram attacks in recent weeks near Maiduguri, capital of northeast Borno state. Meanwhile, rights group Amnesty International has also accused the military itself of committing war crimes and possible crimes against humanity in the course of its operations against the group.