Via CNN:

We’re learning more about the brutal tactics of the Boko Haram terrorist group that abducted 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria on April 14.

A lone survivor from a 2012 shooting massacre carried out by Boko Haram gunmen at a Nigerian church talks about the event.

The scars on his face reveal just a fraction of his pain. And his soft-spoken words cannot hide the urgency of his message.

“Just like al-Qaida, they are very, very destructive,” said Ikenna Nzeribe.

Nzeribe has a warning about the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram and their leader Abubpakar Shekau.

“Everything he says he will do, he does them,” Nzeribe said.

In 2012, Nzeribe was a handsome, ambitious banker, and part of the Christian minority in the northeastern Nigeria town of Mubi. Then masked Boko Haram gunman stormed his church chanting “Allah Hu Akbar” or god is great.

“They started shooting everybody, everybody on sight. They shot everybody in the head,” he said.

When it was over, there were 13 dead. Shot in the face. Nzeribe was the only one to survive.

“I knew it was over for me. And the only thing I could do was say a last prayer, which was ‘Blood of Jesus, cover me,’ and that was it for me,” he said.

The bullet from an AK47 blew away his jaw, his lips and part of his tongue. Surgeons in London struggled to rebuild his face.

“I think after my first surgery in London is when they showed me my, they gave me a mirror, yes.” What he saw was “a very different person.”

It was just the beginning of a long road of recovery. More than a dozen surgeries later, and still more to go. Nzeribe is a full-time patient now living in Houston.

He is out of immediate danger, but not free from fear.

The town of Mubi, where he used to live, is about 60 miles from where Boko Haram abducted the 276 young schoolgirls.