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Boko Haram burns entire village in Borno, kills 14

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Not less than 14 have been reported dead and several others injured as Boko Haram gunmen attacked a village in northeastern Nigeria, on Christmas Day.boko borno destroyedThe terrorists invaded Kimba village in Borno state around 10:00pm on Friday, opening fire on residents and torching their homes.

“The gunmen killed 14 people and burnt the whole village before they fled,” Mustapha Karimbe, a civilian assisting the military in fighting Boko Haram, told AFP.

“Not a single house was spared in the arson,” another vigilante, Musa Suleiman, said after visiting the razed village.

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Hundreds of Kimba residents fled to Biu, where they were lodged in a refugee camp already brimming with people running from Boko Haram.

The attack comes just days before Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s imposed deadline to stamp out Boko Haram expires and in the same week the said that Nigeria has “technically” defeated the jihadists.

Buhari took office in May vowing to end the six-year insurgency that has killed over 17,000 people and frightened much-needed investors in Africa’s largest economy and foremost oil producer.

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Nigerian troops have won back territory from Boko Haram, but in response the jihadists have increasingly resorted to suicide bombers — many of them young children — to wage war for an independent Islamic state.

Despite the success recorded by the military in recent times, there are still growing fears that a once localised hardline Muslim movement is changing into a regional jihadist threat as Boko Haram launches attacks on Nigeria’s neighbours Chad, Cameroon and Niger.

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