VOA EXCLUSIVE: Boko Haram's Terror Targets Many, Spares Few

Ijabula Seltimari can’t figure out how he managed to survive being shot by Boko Haram militants. Twice. In the head. At point blank range. His body, he said, bounced as the bullets hit. “I tried getting up, but I fell. I tried again, but I fell again. So I lay on the ground and that was when people from the neighborhood arrived,” Seltimari said in a VOA interview. “I am lucky that I am still alive.” Seltimari, a 29-year-old married father of three who...

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