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Villagers flee their homes with their belongings a day after gunmen killed 16 people in their village of Tiortyui, some 30 kilometres away from Makurdi, in Nigeria's central Benue state. Eight people were killed in another attack in a village nearby, bringing the toll to 24, as violence caused by heavily armed criminal gangs intensifies across the region. IMAGES
Empty beds in a school hostel and hastily-abandoned bags in classrooms bear testimony to the kidnapping of hundreds of students from the Government Science Secondary School in Nigeria's northwestern town of Kankara. Jihadist extremist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility of Friday's abduction, in what would be its first attack in the region since it launched a jihadist uprising more than a decade ago. IMAGES
Aleppo (Syria), Feb. 18 (EFE) .- Save the Children and UNICEF warned Tuesday that the low temperatures in northwestern Syria and the ongoing offensive in the country's last rebel stronghold have killed thirty children from the over 500,000 who have been displaced by violence in the region.INCLUDES RESOURCE IMAGES BY THE UN OF DISPLACED PEOPLE IN THE NORTHWEST OF SYRIA
A day after their release, dozens of Nigerian schoolchildren kidnapped by gunmen earlier this month, arrive at the Kaduna State Government House ahead of a meeting with the governor of the northwestern state, Uba Sani. The mass abduction in Kuriga, Kaduna state on March 7 was one of the biggest attacks on a school in years and sparked a national outcry over insecurity. IMAGES
Images of the landslide and debris of houses in Petropolis, near Rio de Janeiro, after heavy rains left 4 dead in the disaster. A powerful storm in southeastern Brazil has killed at least thirteen people, most of them in the mountainous and northern region of Rio de Janeiro state. IMAGES
Palestinians flee Khan Yunis as Israeli tanks advance in the area amid deadly fighting in Gaza. International mediators pushed for a new ceasefire and hostage release deal in the Israel-Hamas war. IMAGES