Video Grab: Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau threatens Cameroon in a message on the video-sharing site YouTube. (AFP)
Kano, Nigeria:
Boko Haram launched renewed attacks around a captured town in restive northeast Nigeria this week, razing at least 16 towns and villages, a local government and a union official told AFP.
"They burnt to the ground all the 16 towns and villages including Baga, Dorn-Baga, Mile 4, Mile 3, Kauyen Kuros and Bunduram," said Musa Bukar, head of the Kukawa local government in Borno state.
Abubakar Gamandi, head of Borno's fish traders union and a Baga native, confirmed the attacks, which happened on Wednesday, adding that hundreds of people who fled were trapped on islands on Lake Chad.
"They burnt to the ground all the 16 towns and villages including Baga, Dorn-Baga, Mile 4, Mile 3, Kauyen Kuros and Bunduram," said Musa Bukar, head of the Kukawa local government in Borno state.
Abubakar Gamandi, head of Borno's fish traders union and a Baga native, confirmed the attacks, which happened on Wednesday, adding that hundreds of people who fled were trapped on islands on Lake Chad.
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