The
United States State Department has said that Boko Haram killed the most
number of people in 2013 and 2014 when compared with other terrorist
groups in the world.
The State Department, in a recent
report, compiled a list of the world’s deadliest terrorist groups, with
the total fatalities that they caused in 2013 and 2014.
The Boko Haram group killed the highest number of people in the period.
The Boko Haram group has killed
thousands and displaced millions of Nigerians as a result of its
activities in the North-Eastern part of the country.
The report said the Boko Haram group
caused about 8,239 deaths in the period; the Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant in Iraq killed about 8,038 people. The Taliban group in
Afghanistan caused 5,848 deaths.
The Al-Shabaab group in Somalia killed
around 1,539 people in the period, while the Maoists/Communist Party of
India-Maoist killed 188.
A security expert based in Abuja, Mr.
Lanre Tella, said it was high time the Federal Government worked on its
plan to crush the insurgent group.
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