Boko Haram attack on Maiduguri leaves more than 100 dead

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International Times:

Umberto Bacchi

January 26, 2015

 

The death toll from an attack by Islamist rebels on a northeastern Nigerian city has passed 100, local reporters have said.

Boko Haram militants launched an assault on Maiduguri, the biggest city in northeast Nigeria, on Sunday, as US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in the capital, Lagos, to discuss counter-terrorism and other issues with the Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan.

 

Government troops in the city of more than one million were attacked on three fronts but managed to repel the assailants after a day of heavy fighting, military officials said.

More than 100 bodies were lined up at the city's biggest morgue local reporter Bello Dukku told Reuters on Monday.

The dead were mostly insurgents, with the journalist counting also at least 15 soldiers and a few civilians.

 

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