Disturbing and bloody: Dreaded Nigerian terror group Boko Haram leaves footprints of dead bodies

January 3rd marked Boko Haram's deadliest massacre with an estimated 2,000 people dead. Ten days later, dead bodies are still strewn across the town.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "It is still not safe to go and pick them up for burial," said Musa Bukar, the chairman of the local government where Baga is located to CNN. No one will go in to help the village get back on their feet, because Boko Haram's militants are still in control.

According to CNN, Boko Haram doesn't appear to have plans of leaving the small town of Baga anytime soon; the massacred village perfectly borders Chad, giving the crazed extremists favorable access to both Nigeria and Chad.

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"Each new crime committed by Boko Haram exceeds the last in brutality. This is a direct consequence of the environment of total impunity in which Boko Haram operates," Angelina Jolie, special envoy of U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said in a statement. "Every time they get away with mass murder, rape and the enslavement of women and children, they are emboldened."

Boko Haram's latest endeavors are especially frightening. The Baga massacre that marks their deadliest attack was full of gunfire and explosions. When residents tried to flee, Boko Haram militants jumped on motorcycles chased after them and shot them down. If they hid in their homes, the militants burned down the buildings with the civilians inside.

The "lucky" people that were able to swim away in Lake Chad without drowning, are now stranded on Kangala Island on Lake Chad. They are dying from lack of food, the cold and malaria from mosquitoes, according to CNN's source Abubakar Gamandi, a Baga native who was away during the horrifying attacks.

Chadian authorities are asking for help to relocate those stranded.

"If reports that the town was largely razed to the ground and that hundreds or even as many as 2,000 civilians were killed are true, this marks a disturbing and bloody escalation of Boko Haram's ongoing onslaught," said Daniel Eyre, Nigeria researcher for Amnesty International.

Boko Haram's attack left about 30,000 people displaced.

Following this dreadful day, Boko Haram allegedly had a young girl strapped with explosives detonate in a busy marketplace, killing at least 20 people.

"The attack on the town by the bloodhounds and their activities since January 3 should convince well meaning people all over the world that Boko Haram is the evil all must collaborate to end," exclaimed the Nigerian military.

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According to national security, Nigerian troops are on the hunt for the militants.

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Gamandi, the Baga native, says otherswise though. "From information we are receiving from residents nearby, not a single Nigerian soldier has shown up in Baga since it was seized by Boko Haram. It is all probaganda."

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