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Up to 86 people were killed over the weekend when Nigerian terror group Boko Haram attacked a village in the northeast of the country, the Washington Post reported.
Several people are killed in the first known lethal attack by Boko Haram in Chad, as militants burn a village and kill the local chief. Yiming Woo reports.
Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) At least seven people were killed in a Boko Haram attack on the majority-Christian village of Pemi in Nigeria's Borno state on Christmas Eve, a local official said. "Boko Haram attacked Pemi village, killed seven people and abducted another seven, including a pastor," Kachallah Usman, secretary of the Chibok local government area, told CNN on Friday. "They also burned down a church, a dispensary and several houses," he added. Audu Chiwar, a former secretary of the Chibok community in Abuja, told CNN he received a call on Thursday from a local resident reporting that gunmen had opened fire in the village.
Women and children rescued from the Islamist militant group Boko Haram arrive at a camp for internally displaced persons in Yola, Nigeria. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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