Breaking News: 185 People Feared Dead In Military Onslaught In Borno
Intense fighting between military officers and suspected Boko Haram insurgents in Borno state is reported to have killed almost 200 civilians and destroyed 2,000 homes.
Rocket-propelled grenades and heavy gunfire bombarded the remote town of Baga, near the border with Chad for hours on Friday evening, government and military officials say.
Residents of Baga fled into the bush and only returned on Sunday afternoon to find much of the town destroyed and human and animal corpses strewn through the streets.
Authorities had found and buried at least 185 bodies as of Sunday afternoon, said Lawan Kole, a local government official in Baga.
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