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   BAUCHI, Nigeria –  Suspected Islamic extremists sprayed gunfire   
   at worshippers and torched four churches Sunday in a village   
   just miles from the town where more than 200 schoolgirls were   
   kidnapped, witnesses said.   
      
   At least 30 bodies have been recovered but more are turning up   
   in the bushes, where people tried to escape from Kwada village,   
   said a member of a vigilante group that has had some successes   
   in repelling attacks.   
      
   "They killed dozens of people and burned houses after attacking   
   worshippers," survivor Mallam Yahi told The Associated Press by   
   telephone from Chibok town, to which he escaped.   
      
   Some of the church buildings destroyed included the Protestant   
   Church of Christ in Nigeria, the Pentecostal Deeper Life Bible   
   Church and Ekklesiyar Yan'uwa, which is Hausa for Church of the   
   Brethren in Nigeria, Yahi said. The last was started by American   
   missionaries from Illinois in the 1920s.   
      
   Yahi said the attackers went on to neighboring Kautikari, where   
   they gunned down villagers and burned down homes. The vigilante   
   said they had not yet reached Kautikari so did not know what the   
   death toll was there.   
      
   Police spokesman Gideon Jubrin said he could not confirm the   
   attack because bad communications have kept officials from   
   reaching the nearest security post at Chibok, though Associated   
   Press reporters were able to make cell phone calls to the town.   
   Chibok is the town in northeast Borno state from which more than   
   200 girls were abducted in April. Officials say 219 girls remain   
   captive. Kwada is six miles and Kautikari four miles away.   
      
   Angry Chibok residents said soldiers were slow to respond to   
   news of the attack, and the vigilantes said that once they   
   reached Kwada, the soldiers refused to confront the extremists   
   directly, only shooting at them from a distance outside the   
   village. They spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of   
   reprisals from the military.   
      
   Boko Haram extremists attacked a military camp in the   
   neighboring local government area of Damboa last week and killed   
   at least 51 soldiers. Survivors said they came in armored   
   personnel carriers mounted with anti-aircraft guns and were   
   armed with rocket launchers and submachine guns much heavier   
   than the soldiers' AK47 assault rifles. The insurgents abducted   
   many soldiers who remain missing, they said.   
      
   Boko Haram extremists are demanding the release of detained   
   fighters in return for the kidnapped girls. Nigeria's President   
   Goodluck Jonathan has been criticized for the slow reaction to   
   the abductions and failure to swiftly rescue the girls. The   
   United States has drones flying to help locate them and other   
   nations have sent experts to help, but negotiations appear   
   stalled.   
      
   Nigeria's military has said it knows where they are but fears   
   any military campaign could get them killed.   
      
   Jonathan on Sunday condemned other recent attacks — Friday's   
   bombing of a hotel that local reports identified as a brothel in   
   Bauchi state, also in the northeast, and sectarian killings of   
   sedentary farmers who are mainly Christian by alleged Fulani   
   Muslim herders in northern Kaduna state.   
      
   "The president commiserates with all the families who lost loved   
   ones in the heinous attacks and extends his heartfelt sympathies   
   to all those who suffered injuries or lost their properties   
   during the wanton assaults on Bauchi and Kaduna States," said a   
   statement. He promised the attackers would be brought to book.   
      
   Jonathan made no mention of the near-daily attacks Boko Haram   
   extremists have been mounting in the area around Chibok, an   
   enclave of mainly Christian people in the majority Muslim north   
   of the country. Bauchi and Kaduna states are governed by   
   Jonathan's ruling People's Democratic Party while Borno is held   
   by an opposition governor.   
      
   A year-long military state of emergency in three northeastern   
   states, all held by political opponents of Jonathan, has failed   
   to curb the 5-year-old Islamic uprising that has killed   
   thousands of people. The militants have increased the tempo and   
   deadliness of attacks this year, with more than 2,000 people   
   estimated killed compared to 3,600 in all four previous years.   
      
   Boko Haram also has increased its theater of operations to   
   bombings in several northern towns and the capital, Abuja, in   
   central Nigeria. Politicians say some attacks in central Nigeria   
   are being mounted by extremists disguised as Fulani herdsmen.   
      
   Boko Haram is blamed for last week's bombing of a shopping mall   
   in Abuja, the capital in central Nigeria, that killed 24 people.   
   Boko Haram claimed two separate bomb attacks at an Abuja bus   
   station in April that killed more than 120 people and wounded   
   about 200.   
      
   The extremist want to enforce an Islamic state in Nigeria,   
   Africa's biggest economy, the continent's biggest oil producer   
   and its most populous nation of about 170 million people divided   
   almost equally between a majority Muslim north and mainly   
   Christian south.   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/06/29/gunmen-torch-churches-   
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