Nigerian authorities said on Monday that there had been fierce fighting between security forces and Islamic militants in a remote area in the northeast, but not confirmed to have been killed, 185 people from a local official report.
On Thursday the outbreak of fighting the Baga in Borno State the shores of Lake Chad, is a fishing village by the Chad border - a region officials said Islamic militants and arms smuggling across the Sahara from the point stronghold.
Defense and Brigadier General Chris Olukolade spokesman said the the Nigerian troops exchanged fire with militants, killing 25 people, and only one soldier was killed.
Many hundreds of people died in insurgent Boko Haram, loosely modeled on the number one security threat to Africa's largest energy producer, is considered to be the Taliban movement in Afghanistan.
Local community representatives have put the death toll as 185, Borno State Management District spokesman Omar Gusau said on Sunday after the delegation visited the town.
Gusau said: "Now, we do not have a very good foundation drawing. "These people say they have buried them from my experience, most of the time residents exaggerated figures."
He said, because they have buried victims quickly, in line with Muslim customs authorities have not been able to count an independent body, but the investigation is ongoing.
The spokesman mixed army and police in Borno State Joint Task Force (JTF), Sagir Musa said by telephone, the death toll has "terrible expansion residents.
Rarely recognize the killing of civilians, the military is often accused of locals underestimated civilian casualties.
A spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was "shocked and saddened high number of civilian deaths," the report, adding that he urged all parties concerned to fully respect human rights and protect the lives of civilians ".
President Goodluck Jonathan's office said he had ordered a full investigation of reports of civilian casualties in Baga.
The statement said that his government would "do everything possible to avoid innocent bystanders security actions against terrorists and insurgents killed or injured."
Violence to Jonathan waiting for him to set up the rebels amnesty if they give up their struggle for an Islamic state from the panel report.
Boko Haram negotiations so far have no interest in, and pulled out two mediators, including the Islamic cleric Ahmad Datti the only person Boko Haram have said they trust.
Jonathan, a Christian, in the predominantly Muslim northern region put him under pressure to reduce transaction failed to quell the violence by military means and traditional leaders.
If 185 people died in in Baga fighting, this will be the biggest loss of life in 186 people have been killed since the conflict coordination strike in January 2012 in the main northern city of Kano by the Boko Haram fighter.
Gusau said that when he visited several houses were burned, on Sunday in parts of Baga have been seriously damaged. He said that the Nigerian soldiers sometimes will overreact, Boko Haram gunmen attack, retaliation killed many.
 



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