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Purported Boko Haram leader claims an attack on the northeastern Nigerian town of Baga in which scores of civilians were killed. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
Chadian and Niger soldiers take control of northern Nigerian town of Damasak after killing more than 200 Boko Haram militants. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
A witness to a Boko Haram attack in northeastern Nigeria describes the incident and his perilous escape to safety. Deborah Lutterbeck 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.
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.
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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