What the records say
- When
- Jan 2014
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 138
- Coordinates
- 11.19° N, 8.44° E
- Description
- set of terrorist massacres that occurred in Jan 2014
Placed at the town its title names, Kawuri.
Chakawa and Kawuri attacks
2014 terrorist attacks in Nigeria
The Chakawa and Kawuri were a set of terrorist massacres that occurred in January 2014 at Kawuri, Borno state and in Chakawa village, Madagali Local Government Area, Adamawa State respectively. All of the attacks have been blamed on Boko Haram.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In Chakawa the throats of several church worshippers were slit, while others were shot”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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