"...Boko Haram killed over 29 people attempting to flee their latest attack, but 215 youths made it to Fotokol, Cameroon, 141 miles from Gamboru. These youths told officials what residents endured in three days. Boko Haram forced people between 18 and 25 to fight against the Nigerian and Cameroon army. If anyone resisted, they were slaughtered immediately.
"'I had no alternative, other than to join my colleagues by dawn yesterday to flee for our safety,” said one of the children. “These gunmen had been telling us to join them to fight our soldiers here and at the borders with Cameroon and Chad; after promising us some money and rifles 'to do the work of God'. But some of us decided to take our fate in our hands by fleeing to Cameroon. By noon yesterday (Sunday), about 215 of us converged on Fotokol with broken limbs and bruises, while fleeing to cross the River and bushes with desert tracks. Once they sighted you fleeing, they shoot you, as we have refused to join them...'”
"'I had no alternative, other than to join my colleagues by dawn yesterday to flee for our safety,” said one of the children. “These gunmen had been telling us to join them to fight our soldiers here and at the borders with Cameroon and Chad; after promising us some money and rifles 'to do the work of God'. But some of us decided to take our fate in our hands by fleeing to Cameroon. By noon yesterday (Sunday), about 215 of us converged on Fotokol with broken limbs and bruises, while fleeing to cross the River and bushes with desert tracks. Once they sighted you fleeing, they shoot you, as we have refused to join them...'”
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