According to Daily Trust, the victims were suspected to have been killed by Boko Haram insurgents as they fled the town following an onslaught by Chadian forces to recapture the town.
Credible sources said decomposed bodies littered the streets while many others were discovered inside houses, shallow graves and rivers that have dried up on the onset of the dry season.
The committee spent the weekend recovering and burying remains of the victims under the watchful eyes of Chadian troops who sacked the insurgents from Damasak some weeks ago.
Witnesses and government officials told Daily Trust that the insurgents carried out the massacre during their reign of terror that lasted several months in the fishing community.
Senator-elect Borno North Senatorial District, Alhaji Abukakar Kyari, said there was "large scale atrocity" committed by the insurgents in Damasak and other towns and villages in northern part of Borno State.
However, Kyari denied suggestions that among the victims were some of the 500 children abducted by the militants a few months ago.
It was said that the children were locked up in an Arabic school in Damasak and that they died of suffocation and hunger.
Kyari said: "I have full knowledge of what the committee did in Damasak and the fact is that there was nowhere that bodies of over 500 children was discovered.
"Of course, many people have been killed but nobody or group brought all the dead bodies to one place.
" What really happened was that following the liberation of Damasak by Chadian and Nigerien forces and a visit by a committee that we set up, we again sent our people there on Saturday (25th April) and they worked assiduously in recovering many dead bodies.
"I cannot tell you the precise number of dead bodies but they are many. The people that went to Damasak divided themselves into various groups, recovered the bodies and buried them in various graves," he said.
Kyari said some bodies were recovered in Kareto and others in Damasak.
He said preliminary investigations suggested that some of the fresh corpses were those of insurgents killed by Chadian and Niger Republic troops.
Community leaders have warned that civilians are still at risk, especially those returning to remote areas like Gujba where the military’s deployment has typically been thin.
Many experts agree that Boko Haram is likely to transition from capturing and holding territory to reverting to a pattern of hit-and-run attacks.
Analysts say boastings from regional armies should be treated with caution, as the Islamists are far from defeated and can easily regroup, especially if there is a let-up in the military pressure.
Culled from Daily Trust.
44 comments:
BH should Fah fi yu(burn in hell)
God help us.
The govt shuld do smefin about this people..the wickedness is mych
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Dats so sad.... what God wil judge on dis planet plenty ooooo
Can't they just allow these innocent citizens live there life in peace.....naturally the norths are living in suffering, so why add up to there pain........
Buhari wot is it that u want from them again, u have gotten wot u need, pls call ur men to order or are they out of ur league as in can't u control them again........Mind u its only the north that are obedient to u, so if u finish them. U won't have ppl to rule, except ur COWS
Can't they just allow these innocent citizens live there life in peace.....naturally the norths are living in suffering, so why add up to there pain........
Buhari wot is it that u want from them again, u have gotten wot u need, pls call ur men to order or are they out of ur league as in can't u control them again........Mind u its only the north that are obedient to u, so if u finish them. U won't have ppl to rule, except ur COWS
It will take the Northeastern part of Nigeria decades to recover from the ugly effect of Boko haram. I feel deeply for them.
~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA
This is serious
Hmmmmm...n dese r ppl like u n me
The end of BH is very near.
Rest in peace to the dead.
SAD...TOMJERRYSWIT
Hmmm
Lord have mercy, save us all frm dis evil
Na wah o.
God will so punish those idiots called BH
Just can't wait to see d effects of GMB's magic wand
Shame on you Linda Ikeji, shame on you!!! I hope you are happy seeing Buhari barring AIT from anything he does??? Hope you are proud of this man who is about to suppress the media? I hope you feel good seeing Buhari showing up his dictatorial qualities??This is the useless dictator you used your platform to always support! Shame on you!!! This is how it starts, next this same senile Buhari would aim to control you( that's if he hasn't started yet) and other media houses!!! Shame on you because you were part of the people that bastardised GEJ'S administration just to glorify this senile illiterate Buhari!!! He wants to use his office to control the media and the people but it won't work!!! Shame on you!!! Sahara reporters, the Nation's newspaper, LTV etc said worse and did worse things to GEJ, yet he selflessly allowed the tenets of democracy to triumph, he bared the nonsense and false criticisms thrown at him by people like you and sahara reporters, he didn't think of barring them...this Useless illiterate Buhari cannot withstand criticisms, how can he then move this country forward!!!! shame on you Linda, I say shame on you continously because I remember how you continually criticised and blackmailed GEJ with your ill and false news!!!! Once we have a controlled media, then we should forgot any progress we aim to achieve in democracy!!!
God help, and save our brothers/sisters frm all dis attacks.
@daminat S, here is Linda email lindaikejiads@gmail.com
@daminat S, here is Linda email lindaikejiads@gmail.com u requested for via yesterday posts to davido drivers.
Te end is near
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God when is this going to end...please save Nigerian from this hurricane.
Nimelda said so.......
Lord have mercy
wake up call
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Henry Eze please get out Illiterate!!! so for the 6 yrs of this boko haram terror its been Buhari all along abi?? please u shud behave like an educated person if at all u went to school.
You're a confused fool! Was it not Linda who kept heeping praises on GEJ and how he peacefully accepted defeat? You're an idiot for writing this type of comment and hiding under the guise of anonymous. Shame on you. Shege!
Only God can save us o
Better learn how to talk ooo. freedom after speech is not sure again ooo. #justsaying #learnfromAIT
Let's see how Bihari would curb this people
Hope they recover from this mess
May d souls of the departed RIP. Linda take note!
OMG, may God help us
a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said...
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May the souls of the dead RIP......
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***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***
I see this case as the case of a girl that wants to spoil early! you followed Seun and started living with him, even to the extent of your slippers cutting on your way to buy eyedrop with him and you saw your OWN cousin!
You didn't shout blue murder that he should rescue you there and then but you decided to go to his house and stayed there and even planned a Libya trip without shouting that you want to go home!....even when you were in Libya, you got a phone access and the only person you called is that your pimp cousin..not even your mum or dad!
From the account of your story I judge that you are mentally sound so you do not have any excuse to put your parents and we sympathisers that followed your case through the emotional torture! I just realised that you actually planned to run away from home to go to Lybia and all these crap about meeting cult people and going home with Seun is all crap!
Well, you are still a young girl so better start making something meaningfull out of your life now.....you may not be this lucky next time! Mtscheew!!!!! what parents pass through in the hands of children these days!
Igboooooo. God forbid u people. The most heart wrenching things are done by people in your tribe. Chaiiiii. Please they should stop adding south south and south east together. We are nothing like them abeg. You people should have your own country already.
-olu@atlanta-
May 29, pls come quickly so GMB can root these people out. May God help our land
It is well with their soul
RIP to them
Lord help us
mhen! these are lives, human lives we talking about here, they give figures like we are talking about cockroches or flies, really SAD what the North is facing
Anoyed mugu or anonymous ur an illterate.
Ur own foolishness no get season.
So your shifting d blame on Linda abi?
Mind u, I also supported GMB and not ur GEJ.
If you dnt wnt change park go ur village.
Maybe you should check new news update.
Anon, you are a big fool. So if someone does something wrong he should be allowed to go free that's democracy? No wonder your GEJ allowed Diezani & co loot our country blind and go free r "Democracy to triumph" Fool!
I'll take this with a pinch of salt. Too many unreliable sources and over blown figures.
This person is not okay! Lmfaooooooo! Everyone knows linda supports GEJ abeg! Relax! Direct your frustration at apc supporters
To be honest, now that I re-read it, I do get your point. Linda contributed in her own way by spreading false unverified news. I hated her during the Chibok saga. Now she has flipped the script! Your memory is amazing.
God help us
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