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Suspected Boko Haram insurgents shot dead at least 80 people in a raid in a town in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday, military and local sources said, according to multiple reports. Reuters reports this is part of a resurgence of attacks in Borno state in the past month.
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.
Jihadist group Boko Haram has freed 21 of more than 200 girls it kidnapped in April 2014 in the northern Nigerian town of Chibok, the government said on Thursday.
The first of 219 abducted Chibok schoolgirls to be found after more than two years in Boko Haram captivity meets Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari at his palace in Abuja. Amina Ali, who was discovered by civilian vigilantes and troops on Tuesday, flew from the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, in northeast Nigeria, to the capital, Abuja, with her mother, Binta and her baby. IMAGES
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