On 24 February 2003, hundreds of FNI and FRPI fighters — including children under the age of fifteen[1] — attacked Bogoro with machetes, spears, arrows, mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, rocket launchers and firearms.[3][5] According to the ICC, they circled the village and "converged towards the centre on a killing spree",[3] killing at least 200 civilians, imprisoning survivors in a room filled with corpses, and sexually enslaving women and girls.[3] Some residents of the village were killed by setting their houses on fire, others were hacked to death with machetes.[3] The UN reported that 173 of the victims were under the age of 18.[5]