{Gunmen on motorbikes attack village near Madagali in Adamawa state, killing mourners and setting houses on fire.}<\/p>\n
Boko Haram fighters have killed at least 18 people at a funeral in northeast Nigeria, residents and a police official have said.<\/p>\n
The attackers shot at mourners and set houses on fire after arriving on motorbikes in the village of Kuda near Madagali town in Adamawa state on Thursday evening, witnesses said.<\/p>\n
At least 10 people were injured in the incident, one witness told the Associated Press news agency on condition of anonymity due to security concerns.<\/p>\n
Resident Moses Kwagh told the Reuters news agency that people waited until three hours after the attack and then counted 18 women’s bodies. Some women were still missing, he said.<\/p>\n
“When we said that Boko Haram is still in this place, some people sit in Abuja and claim that there is no more Boko Haram – but see what has happened,” Kwagh said.<\/p>\n
Othman Abubakar, a police spokesman, said on Friday that the number of dead could rise.<\/p>\n
State lawmaker Emmanuel Tsamdu told Reuters: “I have yet to get the details on how it happened and the real number of people killed. I have sent hunters to the area to get me the details because people are afraid to go to the village.”<\/p>\n
Kuda is close to the Sambisa Forest, a vast colonial-era game reserve where Boko Haram fighters hide in secluded camps to avoid the Nigerian military. The village was previously attacked by Boko Haram in February.<\/p>\n
Under President Muhammadu Buhari’s command and aided by Nigeria’s neighbours, the army has recaptured most of the territory seized by Boko Haram, but the armed group still regularly stages attacks.<\/p>\n
Recent attacks in southeastern Niger bordering Nigeria killed more than 20 soldiers and displaced tens of thousands, worsening an already dire humanitarian situation in the region.<\/p>\n
Boko Haram pledged support for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) last year. The Nigeria-based group’s nearly seven-year-old violence has killed about 20,000 people, forced more than two million from their homes and spread into neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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