ABUJA: Militant group Boko Haram has killed at least 145 people in three separate attacks in northeastern Nigerian state of Borno.
Sources said that Boko Haram activists gunned down at least 97 people while they were praying in mosques in the town of Kukawa.
They said that the Boko Haram fighters arrived in seven cars and nine motorcycles in the town. villagers said that over 1,000 Nigerian soldiers were in Kanwa, about 11km away but they did not come to rescue. The people of Kukawa were in several mosques, praying ahead of breaking their daylong fast, when the militants attacked on them.
Sources said that Boko Haram killed 48 people and injured 11 others when the militants stormed two other villages near the town of Monguno.
