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is being blamed for a mass kidnapping and the murder of dozens of people this week. officials and witnesses in a village north of chibuk say the islamic militants launched a raid sunday, shooting down men, killing at least 32 people. they then made off with at least 185 women and children. an estimated 13,000 people have been killed since boko haram s insurgency started in 2009. another 1.5 million are internally displaced. one woman who lost two of her children in a boko haram attack explain what life was like in her village. translator: the past three years we have been enduring insurgent attacks. recently we were driven out of our communities by the insurgents. we ran into the bush and found our way to this camp. they killed a lot of people and burned our houses. reports say about 400,000 of the displaced are in or near that camp in the city of yola.
campaign of violence and terror this he overtook a nigerian village this week, killing dozens of men and kidnapping 185 women and children. and we re joined now from london with the latest. michaela, it is so difficult to get detailed information out of this region. we are building a picture of an extensive series of attacks, the first attack was in chibuk, the site of abduction of 300 women and girls back in april of this year. from there they moved on to an area where they hit again and abducted 185 women and girls there. speaking to nigerian authorities, there s no sense that they even have a trail to follow. there really is no sense for the nigerians as they start to look towards christmas. that they feel that there is any sense of push-back. any support from their government from their armed forces. many of those we ve been
find the kidnapped girls. they heard some dramatic testimony wednesday from a 15-year-old girl whose father and brother were both killed by boko haram. nina jones has our report. reporter: members of the house foreign affairs committee had a lot of questions from two officials in the pentagon. they wanted to know what more can the u.s. do to help the nigerian government do to find and arrest these girls. before the committee they heard from deborah peters who is a survivor from the same town in chibuk. she came under attack in december of 2011 when she was 12 years old. they were targeted because they were christians, her father who was a pastor and her brother were killed by three members of boko haram. she spoke to reporters after that private meeting. here s part of what she told us about what happened on that scary night. they shoot my brother twice
went off 20 minutes later. they were designed to cause maximum impact and to cause a maximum number of injuries. the city is important because it s an essential part of nigeria. the place that s been a hot bed of religious violence. boko haram has exploited the tension to instigate more violence in that area. these attacks on tuesday coming just a few days after a suicide bombing killed roughly five people. of course, while all the international spotlight is focused on the nearly 300 missing girls from chibuk that were taken be on april 18th. despite the president goodluck johnson vowing to crush them in the northeastern state in nigeria, boko haram seems to be determined to wreak havoc in the country. zain asher, abuja, nigeria.
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