Islamic bigots use murderous Christmas attacks

Sunday Telegraph:

Several days of violence in the Nigeria's northeast has left churches bombed and people hiding in fear.

The country's authorities said at least 61 people have died in the violence.

The government has now ordered a dusk until dawn curfew in the Yobe state, where at least 50 people died, following attacks by the sect known as Boko Haram.

In Maiduguri, the capital of neighbouring Borno state, bombs reduced at least three churches to rubble and raised fears of further attacks by a group that claimed Christmas Eve bombings last year that killed dozens.

The fighting began Thursday in the two states, with gunfire and explosions heard into the night and the following day in an arid region that borders Cameroon, Chad and Niger.

Damaturu, the capital of Yobe state, and the town of Potiskum bore the brunt of the violence.

In Damaturu, residents fled their homes near the city's central mosque ahead of a combined attack by soldiers and the federal police's feared Mobile Police, known as "kill-and-go" for their propensity for violence.

The paramilitary forces raided the area in armoured personnel carriers and tanks, with heavy gunfire marking their arrival.

"We were able to kill 12 of the Boko Haram armed sect and bombers," said local police commissioner Lawan Tanko.

He added that officers also recovered Kalashnikov rifles, ammunition and explosives.

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Boko Haram is made up of Islamic religious bigots who have been responsible for attacks on Christians in the past.  They want to wipe out Christianity.