Dolari: Over 100 perish as Boko Haram burn Nigerian children alive
Dolari, a village in terror-torn Borno State of Nigeria, mourns its dead.
Boko Haram descended on the village and let all hell lose for four hours with no one to help the villagers.
Charred corpses and bodies ingloriously decorated with bullet wounds litter what remains of Dolari after Saturday night’s attack.
Survivors tell tales of how the terrorists set houses on fire and rained bullets on those who tried escaping.
One man who reportedly hid on a tree while the attack lasted said he heard children screaming for help as Boko Haram monsters set their mud houses ablaze.
Official sources say at least 100 villagers were killed in the attack. A significant number of them are children, most of them burnt alive.
IN PICTURES: What Dolari looked like after Boko Haram massacre
Pockets of villagers who escaped the flames and the bullets were blown to bloody shreds by at least three suicide bombers who fled along.
“An eye witnessed said the insurgents came in two Golf cars, motorcycles, started opening fire and burning houses,” Nigeria’s military said in a statement confirming the attack.
“Their motive was to cause rancour and penetrate crowd with suicide bombers,” the statement said.
“During the incident lives were lost while some people sustained injuries,” the military said without specifying the death toll.
Dolari survivors say at least 100 people were killed. No less than 35 corpses were deposited at the Maiduguri Specialists hospital, reports say. Maiduguri General Hospital also received another 70 bodies.
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Witnesses say most of the injured are in critical condition raising fears the death toll could rise.
According to the Nigerian army, Boko Haram could have wrecked more as terrorists attempted attacking an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp moment after destroying the village.
“The insurgents also attempted to penetrate Dolari IDP camp, but the attempt was resisted by the troop which resulted into detonation of IED by the suicide bombers,” the military said.
The shocking attack trials claims by the government that “Boko Haram is dead.”
Here’s a graphic photo of one of the babies Boko Haram burned to death in Dolari
It is not the first time the terrorists would do something this despicable. In the course of killing at least 20,000 people since 2009, the terrorists shot schoolboys in their sleep, raped Nigerian girls, and kidnapped over 200 schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno State.
The Nigerian government has so far failed to rescue those girls whose fate, some say, hangs in a balance..
