July 03, 2015 02:37 am | Updated April 01, 2016 04:09 pm IST - MAIDUGURI (Nigeria)
Suspected members of Boko Haram killed "dozens" of people late on Wednesday in a town in the northeast Nigerian state of Borno, not far from Lake Chad, a military source said on Thursday.
A former local official in the town of Kuawa said nearly 100 had been killed after the suspected Islamist militants attacked in the early evening.
A member of a local defence group said the death toll could be as high as 97.
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