Boko Haram: Bodies litter Bama town

Bodies stay littered in the city of a northern Nigerian town two days after it was seized by aggressor Islamists, an official has told the BBC.

Boko Haram contenders were watching the lanes of Bama, keeping individuals from covering the dead, Ahmed Zanna said.

Authorities said in regards to 26,000 individuals had been uprooted by battling in Bama, a key town in the fight for control of Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state.

Not long ago, the Nigeria Security Network (NSN) research organization said the gathering had made "lightning regional additions" lately, raising reasons for alarm that the nation could deteriorate like Syria and Iraq, where the Islamic State (IS) radical gathering has announced a caliphate.

Boko Haram has additionally said it has set up a caliphate in the regions it controls – it is not clear if the two gatherings are unified.

Mr. Zanna, a representative in Borno, said the compassionate circumstance in Bama was "shocking" and there had been a "ton of killings" in the town.

"Such a variety of bodies litter the boulevards, and individuals are not permitted to try and go and cover the dead ones. So the circumstances is deteriorating and more regrettable," Mr Zanna told the BBC's Newsday program in the wake of addressing an occupant who fled the town.

Boko Haram has caught a series of towns in northern-eastern Nigeria as of late, fuelling worry that it could progress towards the fundamental city, Maiduguri.

Mr Zanna said it would be "disastrous" if Boko Haram dispatched an attack on Maiduguri, which has a populace of more than two million.

"I'm asking the administration to send more troops and arsenal to Maiduguri," he said.

"Boko Haram do come overwhelmingly on the grounds that they selected as a group in the towns [in Borno state]," he include