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With the rising rate of Boko Haram attacks in the Northern part of Nigeria, a new global study by the London-based Institute for Economics and Peace has ranked us number 4 on the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) in the world.
Iraq comes in 3rd, with 2,492 attacks that killed more than 6,300 people while Afghanistan and Pakistan, ranked first, second respectively. Syria, which is now driven by a devastating civil war, is ranked fifth.
The 2013 report was released yesterday and stated that the number of people killed in terrorist attacks worldwide jumped more than 60 per cent last year to a record high of nearly 18,000 and the figure could rise further before the end of 2014 due to an escalation of conflict in the Middle East and Nigeria.
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According to the report from This Day newspaper, over 80 per cent of the lives lost to terrorist activities occurred only in 5 countries ; Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria and Syria in 2013.
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