The terror group based in Nigeria, Boko Haram has been named the world's deadliest terror group for its role in the death of many innocent people.
Boko Haram has overtaken ISIS as the world’s most deadly terrorist organisation, according to a new report. The terror group killed 6,644 people while ISIS murdered 6,073 people in 2014.
The Nigerian-based terror group pledged allegiance to ISIS, also known as the Islamic State, in March of this year.
Boko Haram carries out most of its atrocities in north Africa. Over the past year, Nigeria witnessed a 300 per cent rise in fatalities from terror acts to 7,512. This is the largest increase in terrorist-caused deaths ever recorded by any country, and is predominantly down to Boko Haram’s expansion.
In 2013, Nigeria ranked fifth in terms of the highest levels of deaths, but moved to second last year.
Boko Haram is not limited to Nigeria: in 2014 the group doubled its attack and expanded into Chad and Cameroon, in 2014 staging 46 attacks and claiming 520 lives.
While increased use of explosives and bombs – thanks to training from other terrorist outfits – has characterised more recent Boko Haram attacks, the majority of attacks remain armed assaults using machine guns.
The data, published in the third edition of the Global Terrorism Index, was produced by the Institute for Economic and Peace, and drawn from data collected by the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), collated by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism.