KANO, June 14 — Jihadists linked to the Islamic State group killed dozens of people in the latest of a flurry of bloody attacks in north-east Nigeria, local sources said today. Inhabitants of remote Goni Usmanti village told AFP that fighters gunned down 38 people in a raid yesterday and...
File picture shows men pushing a cart loaded with goods past soldiers at the border in Gamboru Ngala, Borno, Nigeria April 27, 2017. — Reuters pic
Separately, security sources and residents said the death toll from a second attack yesterday on the town of Monguno, 60 kilometres away, had risen to 15, including nine soldiers. “The insurgents killed 38 people, including six vigilantes who put up a fight before they were overpowered,” local self-defence group leader Babakura Kolo said.
Security sources and residents today raised the death toll from that assault from six to 15 as more bodies were discovered. Monguno — home to a key army base and tens of thousands of people displaced by the region’s decade-long insurgency — has been repeatedly targeted by jihadists.
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