More than 2,000 people were missing after the radical Islamist group Boko Haram burned down more than 10 towns and villages in Nigeria, a local lawmaker told NBC News. Ahmed Zanna, a senator for Borno state where the attack happened, said the militants torched the town of Baga as well as "10-to-20" other communities in the country's rural northeast over the past five days. "The whole area is covered in bodies," he told NBC News via telephone. Musa Alhaji Bukar, a senior government official in the area, told BBC that 2,000 people had been killed in the raids.
