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BOKO HARAM'S WAR & CONFLICT: Mass grave found in recaptured Nigerian town
Scores of bodies found in mass grave in Damasak
town retaken from Boko Haram, including some
which were decapitated.
Damasak was recaptured from the Boko Haram
armed group by troops from Chad and Niger on
Saturday [AP].
At least 70 bodies were found in a mass grave on
the outskirts of the town of Damasak after it was
recaptured from Boko Haram fighters, Chadian
and Nigerien military officials have said.
Soldiers discovered the bodies, some
decapitated, under a bridge just outside the town
on Friday, which was retaken from Boko Haram
by troops from Chad and Niger.
"There are ... bodies spread around under the
bridge just outside the town," Colonel Azem
Bermandoa Agouna told the AFP news agency,
adding that he had visited the scene himself close
to the border with Niger.
He claimed the massacre probably happened
about two months ago and blamed it on the Boko
Haram armed group from Nigeria.
Footage showed the bodies were strewn beneath
the concrete bridge on one of the main roads
leading out of the town.
Colonel Bermandoa Agouna told AFP that several
of the victims had been decapitated while others
had been shot. "There are heads here and bodies
there, the mass grave has become like a termite
mound," he added.
A Reuters news agency military source also
claimed that the bodies were Boko Haram's
victims.
Al Jazeera cannot independently verify these
claims.
Chad and Niger launched a vast air and ground
offensive against Boko Haram in the area on
March 8, quickly taking Damasak from the group.
"Operation Mai Dounama" aims to destroy Boko
Haram bases close to Niger, a Nigerien army
spokesman said on Thursday.
Damasak was seized by the group in November
killing around 50 people and forcing another
3,000 to flee, according to the UN's High
Commissioner for Refugees. But the town was
recaptured by African troops on Saturday.
Boko Haram has killed thousands of people in six
years of fighting aimed at establishing an Islamic
caliphate in northeast Nigeria.
Source: Agencies
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