UPDATE:- Police, Soldiers Unsure of Death Toll After Sunday Attacks on Churches in Northeast Nigeria
(PHOTO:- A DESERTED COMMUNITY IN BORNO STATE AFTER BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS STRUCK IN MARCH, 2014)
Police and military authorities in northeast Nigerian state of Borno say they are still not certain on the number of persons killed during a raid on churches on Sunday.
But local vigilante who had counted over 30 corpses picked from five attacked churches and around bushes said they are still searching and picking more corpses.
"We are still searching and finding more corpses", said a local vigilante official, Yaghe.
But the local believe the toll could be more than a score.
"My wife's family have lost eight persons during the attack on Kwada village yesterday", said Abba Galva, an official of the Local Vigilante Group.
Police Public Relations Officer, Gideon Jubrin said "the military is now in charge in CHIBOK, so we have to rely on what they bring up as the actual death casualty".
Boko Haram has sustained its hostility on soft targets in the remote rural areas in the last one year, and may have killed over 1000 persons in such attack that occur almost everyday.
Their attacks knows no faith, tribe or class as they had killed persons in mosques, churches, markets, offices, schools and mostly on the highways.
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