Lagos
(AFP) - Boko Haram fighters killed a woman as she was in labour during what is
feared to be the deadliest attack in the militants' six-year insurgency,
Amnesty International claimed on Thursday.
The
human rights group said one witness to the assault on Baga, on the shores of
Lake Chad in northeast Nigeria, told them the woman was shot by indiscriminate
fire that also cut down small children.
"Half
of the baby boy (was) out and she died like this," the unnamed witness was
quoted as saying.
Amnesty
said this week that 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.
"They
killed so many people. I saw maybe around 100 killed at that time in Baga. I
ran to the bush. As we were running, they were shooting and killing," a
man in his fifties was quoted as saying.
Another
woman added: "I don't know how many but there were bodies everywhere we
looked."
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