Islamic extremists in northeast Nigeria are turning their guns on elderly people, killing more than 50 this week in a new tactic that has instilled more fear in areas the militants call an Islamic caliphate, AP reports.

Residents from five villages say people too elderly to flee Gwoza local government area are being rounded up and taken to two schools where the militants open fire on them. The villages are about 130 kilometers (80 miles) southeast of Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.

“What they are doing now is to assemble the aged people — both men and women … and then they just open fire on some of them,” AP quoted Muhammed Gava, a spokesman for civil defense groups in the area as saying. More than 50 people had been killed at Government Day Secondary School in Gwoza, he said.

A villager who had fled said more elderly people are being gathered and shot at Uvaghe Central Primary School. The villager spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of endangering his trapped parents.

Government officials did not immediately comment on the reports.

Nigeria’s military said soldiers are patrolling “in search of terrorists” and “to verify abductions” Friday around the village of Gumburi, where witnesses say extremists kidnapped at least 185 people a week ago.

Nigeria’s military and government have been criticized for their failure to rescue 219 schoolgirls kidnapped from a town near Gumburi in April.

In separate attacks Friday, witnesses said Boko Haram struck at Damagum and Mamudo towns in Yobe state, bombing government buildings, the police station and military barracks.

The extremists suffered a setback when they attacked soldiers guarding a power station in Borno state, according to an engineer who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. He said soldiers were warned in advance that the extremists were advancing and engaged the militants in fierce fighting that killed at least 70.

Extremists have killed thousands of people in a 5-year uprising that has driven some 1.6 million from their homes.
http://www.today.ng/news/terror-boko-haram-assembles-elderly-people-in-gwoza-open-fire-on-them/

God pls have mercy...

All those blood would cry out....

When will all these killings end?. I sometimes wonder if these towns in Borno state still has inhabitants. The streets would possibly be so deserted and quiet that a pin dropped on the floor will be heard. May God heal our land...

softandsweet:
When will all these killings end?. I sometimes wonder if these towns in Borno state still has inhabitants. The streets would possibly be so deserted and quiet that a pin dropped on the floor will be heard. May God heal our land...

(orchestra band plays "She's back with a bang" Amen!

daveP:
(orchestra band plays "She's back with a bang" Amen!

. Yeah I am. We are on strike..... . Hope you are good.

Na wa o. May God help us

D world is like standing fan, it brow obi nd brows ada at inverval. That is how they gathered our elderly people in Okwe town Enugu state and shot them all in a hot afternoon. Uwa neme ntughari

softandsweet:

. Yeah I am. We are on strike..... . Hope you are good.

strike by December? They shouldave simply announced holiday break. Yeah im good. Happy sunday

daveP:
strike by December? They shouldave simply announced holiday break. Yeah im good. Happy sunday

Johesu

Boko haram demons shall pay for their sins and crime against humanity on earth and in hell.
RIP to the death.

Beesluv:
Na wa o. May God help us

it's coming close to your door step. Islam is close to you and Boko haram is closer. Vote Buhari to fast track the movement. Yeye dey smell. The east is fortified. The SS are ready.

Balkan:
it's coming close to your door step. Islam is close to you and Boko haram is closer. Vote Buhari to fast track the movement. Yeye dey smell. The east is fortified. The SS are ready.

What's this 1 saying?

Balkan:
The east is fortified.

the east is fortified yet you are still hiding in Lagos. Dont worry, you ate going back to Biafra

I love this!

SOUNDKING:
D world is like standing fan, it brow obi nd brows ada at inverval. That is how they gathered our elderly people in Okwe town Enugu state and shot them all in a hot afternoon. Uwa neme ntughari

Soundk, ur fan shd be blowing not "browing"

softandsweet:

Johesu

wow

Sm people are busy donating billions 4 re election. smh