Boko haram has killed atleast 22 people at a busy
church service in a northeast Nigerian village, eye witnesses said on
Monday, in a region where Islamist sect Boko Haram is resisting a military crackdown.
They set off bombs
and fired into the congregation in the Catholic church in Waga Chakawa
village in Adamawa state on Sunday morning, before burning houses and
taking residents hostage during a four-hour siege, witnesses said.
President Goodluck Jonathan is struggling to contain Boko Haram in remote rural regions in the country's northeast corner, where the sect first launched an uprising in 2009.
The shady sect, which wants to impose sharia law on a country split
roughly equally between Christians and
Muslims, has killed thousands
over the past four and a half years and is considered the biggest
security risk in Africa's top oil exporter and second largest economy
after South Africa.
Its fighters' favorite targets have traditionally been security
forces, politicians who oppose them and Christian minorities in the
largely Muslim north.
The spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Yola, Reverend Father
Raymond Danbouye, confirmed 22 people killed in the attack were buried
at a funeral on Monday.
The military and police did not respond to requests for comment but
one army source confirmed the attack, asking not to be named because he
wasn't authorized to speak with the media.
Waga Chakawa is near the border with Borno state, in which there was a
separate assault on Monday by suspected members of the shady sect in
Kawuri village, witnesses said.
Residents of that village who fled to the state capital Maiduguri
said gunmen killed several people and set homes ablaze in the early
morning attack.
An army spokesman did not respond to requests for comment.
Jonathan replaced his chiefs of defense, army, navy and air force
last week in a widespread military shake-up. No reason was given for the
overhaul, but security experts believe there was a need for a change of
tactics in combating Boko Haram.
Jonathan declared a state of emergency in three northeastern states
in May last year and launched an intensified military campaign to try to
end the insurgency.
Monday, January 27, 2014
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