An airstrike on a market in Yobe, in northeastern Nigeria, has left scores of people dead and wounded, though details remain unclear. The military said it conducted a “precision” strike on a known terrorist enclave.
Over 100 people were killed in an airstrike on a Jilli village market in northeast Nigeria, Amnesty International said on Sunday, citing survivors of the bombing.
“Witnesses said three military jets fired on the market yesterday. Emergency section of Geidam General Hospital had so far received 35 people with severe injuries,” the international human rights watchdog said in an online post.
“We are in touch with people that are there, we spoke with the hospital,” Isa Sanusi, Amnesty International’s Nigeria director, told the AP news agency.
“We spoke with the person in charge of casualties, and we spoke with the victims,” he said. “We have their pictures and they include children,” he said.
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