According to Amnesty International: "At 7.30 pm on 16 April 2013, Boko Haram fighters attacked soldiers from the Multinational JTF along the Baga-Malam Karanti road, killing one soldier. A shoot-out followed, in which, according to the military, 25 Boko Haram members died. The next morning at 6 am, the military started a “mop-up” operation in Baga, in the course of which thousands of buildings were destroyed and at least 185 people were killed. According to military reports sent from the headquarters of the Multinational JTF to Defence Headquarters, 25 Boko Haram members were killed on 16 April. The preliminary report by Defence Headquarters to the President stated that a total of 30 people were killed. Various local representatives, however, claimed that at least 185 civilians were killed by the military, apparently in retaliation for the earlier death of a soldier. Many of their bodies were burnt beyond recognition. Residents told the Governor, when he visited the town on 21 April, that 3,059 houses had been destroyed and 187 people killed. Satellite images published by Human Rights Watch show that at least 2,275 buildings were destroyed and 125 severely damaged. An eyewitness told Amnesty International: “On the Wednesday [17 April] at 8am I saw soldiers come towards my house on the south. We didn’t see anyone fighting with them.” Another eyewitness told Amnesty International that he saw soldiers “putting fire to the houses” in his neighbourhood as he and his family tried to leave. Mustapha, a 21-year-old former resident of Baga, told Amnesty International that all houses in his neighbourhood were on fire. He was in his house with his friend Abubakar, his landlady and a 13-year-old girl; he managed to escape but was severely burned. When he went back to his house the next day, he found Abubakar and the girl dead. He said that soldiers had shot Abubakar inside their house, while the girl burned to death. Abdullah Umar (not his real name), a 42 year-old fisherman who relocated in Baga after the military attacked his home town Duguri in February 2012, told Amnesty International that he hid in the bush while the soldiers were going house to house. He said: “After all the shooting and the bombing, when we came back to the town, there were more than 180 dead bodies. Some were in their house. Some in their shops, some even in their toilets. Bodies everywhere, killed by the military… Later we discovered more bodies in the water and in the bush. The number eventually increased to more than 214 people.” Amnesty International was not able to establish how many of the people killed were extrajudicially executed and how many died in the course of shoot-outs. Witness testimonies collected by Human Rights Watch shortly after the attack describe unarmed civilians, who presented no danger to the troops, being killed by soldiers who went “door to door looking for any men.” ^[+]