Insurgency and violent attacks by armed men have become part of the North's albatross. With Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states in the northeast still under state of emergency, the people of the sub-region have witnessed unprecedented carnage on human lives more than previous years. KAREEM HARUNA, Maiduguri, MIDAT JOSEPH and ISAIAH BENJAMIN, Kaduna, and ABUBAKAR SALIHI, Kano catalogue some of the major attacks which affected human lives and properties in 2013 The year 2013 can best be described as one of boots, bullets and wanton bloodshed for the troubled people in the northeast Nigerian states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, LEADERSHIP Sunday reports.
Since the beginning of the year, the region had witnessed massive deployment of military operatives and equipment almost in the same proportion wanton human deaths and destruction of its socio-economic fabrics was being recorded in the wake of Boko Haram insurgency.
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