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muriel_volestrangler

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1. Nigeria's Boko Haram unrest: Scores dead in Benisheik raid

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Fri Sep 20, 2013, 07:41 AM

Sep 2013

At least 87 people have been killed in an attack by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state, according to local officials.

Disguised in military uniforms, the militants set up checkpoints outside the town of Benisheik and shot dead those trying to flee, witnesses said.

They also razed dozens of buildings in Tuesday's attack.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24169992

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