'Piles of bodies' in attacked Baga Vilage by Boko Haram; Fisherman narrates his ordeal

 

 Borye Kime, 40-year-old fisherman confirms massacre incident which government says "its just 150 dead" yet no one is burying the bodies to prevent smell from decomposition.

Borye narrated is ordeal  when he crept back into the fishing town of Baga in northeast Nigeria in the early hours of Monday, a weak moon shone on a grisly sight. "It is corpses everywhere," he told AFP.

"The whole town smells of decomposing bodies,"

Borye was one of thousands who fled across the border to Chad when Boko Haram fighters stormed his hometown of Baga in Nigeria's far northeast on January 3.

On Saturday, another man, Yanaye Grema, said he was forced to hide for three days while the militants ransacked Baga. He eventually fled into the bush under the cover of darkness on Tuesday.

"For five kilometres (three miles), I kept stepping on dead bodies," he said.

Amnesty International said numerous eye-witnesses had described how the Boko Haram militants went from door to door, pulling out young men of fighting age and shooting them dead in the street.

"It is based on these witnesses' testimonies that we are able to say that hundreds of civilians died in the attack, if not more, and thousands have been displaced," said the group's Nigeria researcher Daniel Eyre.

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