Boko Haram Activities Force 6,000 People to Neighboring Countries

Nigerian city of Kaduna where cars were destroyed in bomb blasts blamed on Boko Haram. The conflict is ongoing inside the West African state., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.

Boko Haram activities force 6,000 people to neighboring countries

Written by NAN
Nigerian Guardian

THE agency noted that its team in Cameroon's far North region had spoken with refugees from the area around Banki, a town just across the border in Nigeria's Borno State.

``The refugees said their villages were bombed, that several people had been killed, and that at least two villages were burned to the ground,” it said.

According to UNHCR, in Niger, 1,500 new refugees, mostly women and children, arrived in the Diffa region of south-east Niger.

It added that the refugees said that they fled because of Jan. 16 attack of a mosque in the village of Gashagar, just across the border.

Seven people were reportedly killed during the attack, and seven cars and 60 shops were burned. (NAN)