Boko Haram is now the target of blame after a witness said it was the extremist group who massacred a small village in Nigeria. According to the Associated Press via CBS News, countless numbers of people perished during the widespread burning and shooting that lasted for hours.

Nigeria's President Muhhamadu Buhari's bold statement that the group is "technically defeated" only sparked outrage and deliberately caused Boko Haram to inflict danger to the small villages in the country.

An anonymous soldier said that there were three female suicide bombers who carried the attack. Despite the attack, some of the victims were able to flee to the nearby Gamori village. The exact count of the victims is still unknown as retrieval operation still continues.

After the attack on Saturday, Dalori village had a lot of dead bodies scattered on the streets. The said village is just three miles from where the Boko Haram group was established. A survivor of the deadly attack recounted the ordeal, saying that children were not spared from the violence.

According to Yahoo News, citing the Associated Press, military assistance arrived at the scene around 8:40 p.m. on Saturday. However, they failed to secure the area.

On Sunday, there were approximately 86 casualties and 62 villagers who suffered burns and are under treatment. The Boko Haram attack was not confined within Dalori village as a nearby refugee camp, which had 25,000 people living in it, also suffered.

Alamin Bakura, a survivor of the attack expressed his grief, saying that several members of his family were either killed or wounded.

CBS News noted that for years, the military has forced the group to leave the villages in Nigeria, which prompted the Boko Haram to start their attacks. The group has killed at least 20,000 people since 2009. When Boko Haram was founded in 2002, they slowly developed as a violent group. In March 2015, the group declared their affiliation with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Yahoo! News also said that the Boko Haram attackers only retreated when the military, with high-end weapons, arrived in the village. According to CBS News, Nigerian militants now pose a greater threat than its Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) counterpart. Today, millions of families in Nigeria have been displaced by the group's terror attacks.