In deadliest attack, Boko Haram kills woman in labor

In what is feared to be the deadliest attack by Boko Haram in its 6-year insurgency, the militants killed a woman as she was in labor in Baga, on the shores of Lake Chad in northeast Nigeria, Amnesty International claimed. The rights group said hundreds of people, if not more, may have been killed in the attack, which began on January 3 and is thought to have targeted civilian vigilantes helping the military. Nigeria’s military has dismissed as “sensational” earlier claims that 2,000 may have lost their lives. Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan paid a surprise visit to Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, the heartland of the Boko Haram movement. He assured survivors of the Baga attacks that “all the areas under the control of Boko Haram will soon be recaptured.”

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