Boko Haram Attack on Military Formations in Maiduguri, Death Toll Hit Over 500

Over 500 people were killed in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital  last week when security forces responded to what the military portrayed as an attempted jailbreak by the Islamist group Boko Haram, making it one of the bloodiest episodes in the military's five-year counterinsurgency, according to officials in the northern town of Maiduguri.