100 killed in Boko Haram attack in Nigeria

Maiduguri (Nigeria): Suspected members of Boko Haram killed "dozens" of people late on Wednesday in a town in the northeast Nigerian state of Borno, not far from Lake Chad, a military source said on Thursday.

A former local



official in the town of Kuawa said nearly 100 had been killed after the suspected Islamist militants attacked in the early evening.

A member of a local defence group said the death toll could be as high as 97.