US EditionDeadly jihadist attack kills dozens in northeast Nigeria, including soldiers
Islamic State West Africa Province militants killed over 20 people including soldiers and workers in Borno State, part of a conflict causing over 40,000 deaths since 2009, UN said.
- On Thursday, a jihadist attack struck Sabon Gari in remote Borno State, killing dozens including soldiers after gunmen opened fire on construction labourers, with Liman saying `The death toll runs into dozens`.
- Borno State has long served as the insurgency's epicentre, enduring a 17-year Islamist insurgency since Boko Haram splintered in 2016 into Islamic State West Africa Province , which mainly targets security forces.
- Buo general hospital received bodies and wounded, including five soldiers and 15 construction workers, after an attack on labourers returning from a destroyed road bridge last year.
- A separate pre-dawn assault killed soldiers at an army base, killing at least nine soldiers and two civilian task force members, and Aliyu 'Ndume said he was shocked and saddened.
- More than 40,000 people have been killed and nearly two million displaced, and Nigerian authorities say they are cooperating with Washington after U.S. forces struck targets on December 25.
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Some of the victims were working on a bridge, which was destroyed by jihadists last year and is being rebuilt.
Deadly jihadist attack kills dozens in northeast Nigeria, including soldiers
Islamic State-aligned militants killed dozens of people, including soldiers, in an overnight attack in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state on Thursday, local sources said. The assault in Sabon Gari underscores…
ISWAP jihadists killed dozens of people on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, including soldiers in the state of Borno (northeastern Nigeria), reporting local and medical sources.
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