Baga, a community in Borno State, has always been a quiet town until penultimate Friday when the people of the community were caught in the crossfire between Boko Haram insurgents and the Multinational Joint Task Force that left the community in sorrows, tears and blood, reports Michael Olugbode
Her children were still playing in the dry and dusty earth by the time the soldiers arrived. The fishes were splashing in the lake near the community as usual, but a moment later, Baga became a bleak and empty place.
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