Amnesty ||The Boko Haram sect killed a woman
as she was in labour during what is
feared could be the deadiest attack in
the militants’ six year insurgency,
Amnesty International claimed on
Thursday. The human right group also 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
killed 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.
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