{{Men dressed as soldiers opened fire on worshippers leaving a mosque in Nigeria’s far northeast earlier this week, killing at least 35 people in the second such attack this month, officials said.}}<\/p>\n
The attack in Demba village happened on Monday but details were only emerging on Friday because the area is remote and phone lines had been cut off by authorities to disrupt activities of the armed group Boko Haram.<\/p>\n
Officials blamed Boko Haram for the attack which occurred close to Baga town in northeast Borno state, which was a stronghold of the group until a military crackdown in mid-May pushed many fighters into hiding or across the Cameroon border.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is impossible to access the area. Human rights and civil society groups are also being prohibited to visit the area where the army has launched an onslaught against the rebels,\u201d Al Jazeera\u2019s Yvonne Ndege, reporting from the capital, Abuja, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we were told by army is that these people were killed because they refused to join Boko Haram and worked against them.\u201d<\/p>\n
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