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A survivor concealed in a tree says he saw Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of kids burning among 86 individuals officials say died in the most recent assault by the homegrown Islamic extremists in Nigeria.

Lots of charred corpses and bodies with bullet wounds trashed the roads from Saturday night’s assault on Dalori hamlet and two nearby camps home 25,000 refugees, according to survivors and soldiers at the scene only 5 kilometers from Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram and the largest city in Nigeria’s northeast.

The violence continued as three female suicide bombers blew up among individuals who were able to flee to nearby Gamori hamlet, killing many individuals, in accordance with a soldier because he’s not authorised to talk to journalists in the scene who insisted on anonymity.

Troops arrived around 8:40 pm Saturday but were at Dalori unable to defeat the attackers, who were better armed said soldiers who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorised to talk to the press.

The Boko Haram combatants simply pulled away after reinforcements arrived with more heavy weapons, they said.

Journalists seen the carnage Sunday and talked to survivors who whined it’d taken too long for help to get there from nearby Maiduguri, the military headquarters of the fight to conquer Boko Haram.They said they fear another assault.

Boko Haram continues to be attacking soft targets, increasingly with suicide bombers, because the military last year drove them out of towns and villages in northeastern Nigeria.

The 6-year rebellion has killed about 20,000 individuals and driven 2.5 million from their houses.

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Two suicide bombings by militants left a cop along with five civilians dead in Niger a humanitarian worker said.

“The assailants were pursued by inhabitants who told the military and they quickly went after them.”

A municipal official earlier had given a cost of three civilian deaths a city close to the border.

Niger has joined a regional military alliance, alongside Nigeria, Niger and Chad, to fight with Boko Haram, that has been waged a bloody insurgency since 2009 marked village massacres by mass abductions and suicide bombings by girls and adolescents.

Since February the Diffa area has endured several fatal Boko Haram raids.

In June, 38 civilians were killed — including 10 kids — in a Boko Haram strike targeting two hamlets near town.

In July, the prison of the city was raided by the Islamists in a bid that was likely to free detained members .

Boko Haram killed 16 civilians within an assault on a southeastern Niger village precisely the same month.

Diffa lies on the edge with Nigeria that is northeast, where the Islamists have waged a bloody rebellion leaving at least 15,000 dead and two million others homeless.

Tens of thousands have fled to Niger that was southeast to escape Boko Haram with among the biggest refugee camps about 10 kilometres (six miles) .

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An alleged Boko Haram assault on a a village killed two of the soldiers of the nation, the military that was Nigerien has said, the latest fatal raid from the Islamist group.

In route to the hamlet, the troops were ambushed by “supposed Boko Haram components”, the statement said, with two soldiers killed and seven others wounded. An army vehicle was likewise ruined.

Since February, Diffa’s southern Nigerien area, on the border with Nigeria, has endured several assaults, including 10 kids, including one in which 38 people were killed.

Most recently, 15 civilians were killed on a border hamlet as the Eid al-Adha holiday was marked by Muslims, shattering two months of comparative calm in the region. Tens of thousands have fled to Niger that was southeast to escape Boko Haram with among the biggest refugee camps about 10 kilometres.

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