Suspected Boko Haram fighters kill 65 in attack on funeral in Nigeria | IOL News

The weekend attack bearing the hallmarks of terrorist group Boko Haram left at least 65 people dead, authorities said Monday, as residents urged the military to ramp up protection in a region gripped by extremist violence.

Over the last decade, the group has killed approximately 27,000 people and forced at estimated 2 million more from their homes in its quest to wipe out secular rule and impose Sharia law. Shekau's fighters are known for strapping women and children in particular with bombs and sending them into crowds.

"My heart started skipping a beat," he said, "and I told an elderly person next to me that I am not comfortable with those people coming to us.""I was shot on my right thigh and shoulders and left for dead," he said from his hospital bed in Maiduguri.He felt lucky to be alive, he said, because the gunmen started checking the bodies to make sure people were dead.

"We headed there only to find bodies lying everywhere," Kanumbu said in an interview. "Those who could talk urged us to go after Boko Haram, saying they were fleeing."President Buhari condemned the massacre in a Sunday statement, ordering the nation's air force to launch air patrols as the army tracked down the attackers on the ground.

The homegrown Islamist insurgency in Africa's most populous nation has displaced millions. Analysts say the protracted unrest threatens to destabilize one of the continent's top economies, spill into neighboring countries and clear the way for terrorist training grounds across West Africa.

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