Hundreds of people are feared dead in a Boko Haram attack on four villages in northeast Nigeria.
Some community leaders put the death toll from the Tuesday attacks in the Gwoza district of Borno state as high as 400 to 500, although there was no independent verification of the carnage.
If confirmed, the attacks in the villages of Goshe, Attagara, Agapalwa and Aganjara would be among the deadliest in the five-year insurgency and top the more than 300 who were killed on May 5 in nearby Gamboru Ngala.
“The killings are massive but nobody can give a toll for now because nobody has been able to go to that place because the insurgents are still there. They have taken over the whole area,” lawmaker Peter Biye told.
“There are bodies littered over the whole area and people have fled,” added Biye, who represents Gwoza in Nigeria´s lower chamber of parliament, the House of Representatives.
