At least 110 civilians were coldly killed as they worked in their fields on Saturday, according to a new United Nations report.
It is the deadliest attack on civilians this year in northeast Nigeria, which has been in the throes of a jihadist insurgency for more than a decade.
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The massacre took place on the day of local elections in this state, the first to be organized since the start of the Boko Haram insurgency in 2009. Since that date, more than 36,000 have been killed and more than two million people have been killed. flee their homes.
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On November 28, in the early afternoon, armed men arrived on motorcycles and carried out a brutal attack on men and women working in fields in Koshobe,
" the humanitarian coordinator of the
Koshobe
said on Sunday. UN in Nigeria, Edward Kallon. "
At least 110 civilians were coldly killed, and many more injured in this attack,
" he added, in what he called "the
most violent attack against innocent civilians this year
".
