Tag: massacre
Bandits massacre 19 in 2 Kaduna LGAs in one day, Victims identified
No fewer than 19 people were massacred by bandits in two separate attacks in Kaduna on Saturday. Many were also…
Tragedy: 66 people massacred in Kaduna on election eve
Sixty-six people have been massacred at Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State by unknown gunmen on the eve of…
Baga is a ghost town one year after Boko Haram massacre
One year after a massive attack ranked among the worst in Boko Haram’s six-year insurgency, the residents of Baga in…
Six Cameroon villagers massacred by Boko Haram
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Boko Haram militants massacred six villagers in Cameroon before the overnight attack was repelled by government soldiers,…
IS claims responsibility for Tunisia massacre
Port el Kantaoui (Tunisia) (AFP) – The Islamic State group on Saturday claimed responsibility for a massacre in a Tunisian…
Over 6,000 killed in ‘merciless devastation’ in Ukraine – UN
More than 6,000 people have been killed since violence erupted in Ukraine last April, the UN rights chief said Monday,…
Massacre by Boko Haram ‘crime against humanity’, says Kerry
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that massacres in two Nigerian towns by the “evil” Islamist group Boko…
Global Outrage Over School Massacre
The bloody siege of an elite army high school Tuesday by Taliban gunmen, which killed at least 141 students and…
Gunmen slaughter 36 in fresh attack in Kenya
Gunmen have massacred at least 36 workers at a quarry in a fresh attack in troubled northeast Kenya, police and…
At least 100 killed in new massacre in east DR Congo
About 100 people were slaughtered last week in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the latest massacre…
Ex-Seleka fighters massacre ‘at least 34’ in C.Africa
Suspected ex-rebels from the Central African Republic’s Seleka movement massacred at least 34 people in several northern villages over the…
Jihadists kill dozens in northern Iraq ‘massacre’
Jihadists carried out a “massacre” in the northern Iraqi village of Kocho, killing dozens of people, most of them members…
Family of 10 killed by cattle rustlers
Armed gunmen suspected to be cattle rustlers have killed 10 members of one family in Kukek Village, Plateau State, central…
Atiku: Students massacre casts horrible image on National Day
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has described as “senseless and tragic,” the murders of dozens of agriculture students gunned down…
Baga Massacre: Governor orders rebuilding of homes
Government of Nigeria’s north eastern state of Borno on Tuesday directed the Ministry of Works to begin reconstruction of houses…
Massacre In Maiduguri As JTF, Boko Haram Clash
Several people have been killed and houses set ablaze following a clash between Nigeria’s military and suspected Boko Haram Islamist…
Kano Massacre: The Height Of Provocation
By Joy Igbokwe “I have lost my nose. There is a deep gorge in my stomach, I am placed on…
Bandits massacre 7 Nigerian villagers
Bandits raided three villages in northern Nigeria’s Zamfara state on Saturday, leaving seven people dead and seven in hospital, an…
Many arrested over Mubi Massacre
Nigerian police in Adamawa state said Wednesday they had arrested many suspects following a massacre at a student housing area…
Killed Mubi Poly students were called out by name
Attackers who massacred at least 26 people in a student housing area in northern Nigeria on Tuesday called victims out…
Death toll rises in Nigerian church massacre
The death toll in the church massacre in Nigeria’s central state of Kogi state has increased to 19, according to…
UN team arrives Syria’s brutalized town of Houla
A team of UN observers deployed in Syria to monitor a shaky truce arrived on Saturday in the town of…
Herdsmen massacre villagers, burn homes
Pene Da Bwatiye, the umbrella body of Bwatiye people of Adamawa, said 12 villages were affected in Sunday’s attack in Lamurde Local…
Clerics Want Church Bombers Punished
The Chief Imam of Ansar-Ud-Deen Society of Nigeria, Ikorodu Branch, Alhaji Abdul-Fatai Olutusin, has distanced Islam from the violence being…