Boko Haram Has Killed More Than Any Other Terrorist Group in the World - US State Department

The United States State Department has said that Boko Haram
killed the most number of people in 2013 and 2014 when
compared with other terrorist groups in the world.
The State Department, in a recent report, compiled a list of the
world’s deadliest terrorist groups, with the total fatalities that
they caused in 2013 and 2014.
The Boko Haram group killed the highest number of people in
the period.
The Boko Haram group has killed thousands and displaced
millions of Nigerians as a result of its activities in the North-
Eastern part of the country.
The report said the Boko Haram group caused about 8,239
deaths in the period; the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in
Iraq killed about 8,038 people. The Taliban group in Afghanistan
caused 5,848 deaths.
The Al-Shabaab group in Somalia killed around 1,539 people in
the period, while the Maoists/Communist Party of India-Maoist
killed 188.
A security expert based in Abuja, Mr. Lanre Tella, said it was
high time the Federal Government worked on its plan to crush
the insurgent group, Punch News reports.