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Nigeria Boko Haram: Children targeted in massacre of 68 villagers
Source: International Business Times/AFP
Militants from Boko Haram have killed dozens of people, including children, in a village in northeast Nigeria.
Gunmen deliberately targeted children, witnesses told AFP news agency.
"I participated in the counting of dead bodies. Sixty-eight people were killed," said Muminu Haruna, who escaped the attack in the village of Njaba, Borno state.
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The massacre took place on Tuesday but reports are only emerging now as the village is in an extremely remote part of the west African nation.
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nigeria-boko-haram-children-targeted-massacre-68-villagers-1490694
Other reports: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/03/05/uk-nigeria-violence-idUKKBN0M120020150305
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-31757272
http://dailypost.ng/2015/03/05/boko-haram-74-men-20-children-killed-in-njaba-village-for-refusing-to-join-sect/
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