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Devastation as Boko Haram burns Children Alive in Dalori | 86 Confirmed Dead

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Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for a horrific attack in Dalori.

AP which visited the scene reports

A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children burning to death, among 86 people officials say died in the latest attack by Nigeria’s homegrown Islamic extremists.
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Scores of charred corpses and bodies with bullet wounds littered the streets from Saturday night’s attack on Dalori village and two nearby camps housing 25,000 refugees, according to survivors and soldiers at the scene just 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram and the biggest city in Nigeria’s northeast.

The shooting, burning and explosions from three suicide bombers continued for nearly four hours in the unprotected area, survivor Alamin Bakura said, weeping on a telephone call to The Associated Press. He said several of his family members were killed or wounded.

Boko Haram also carried out for deadly bomb attacks in neighbouring Chad yesterday.

Three people are confirmed dead and dozens wounded when two suicide bombers struck two locations near Lake Chad.

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