Extract from BBC
news
Suspected Boko Haram fighters have killed at least 20 members of
vigilante groups trying to fight back against the group in north-east Borno
state.
The deaths occurred in
two separate attacks on Sunday and Monday, said residents and a military
official.
On Sunday, men
disguised in military uniforms stormed a meeting of one vigilante group in
Bama, opening fire and killing 14, residents said.
An official at a local
hospital told AFP news agency another four people died on Monday from the
attack.
The second attack took
place on Monday night in the Borno village of Damasak, some 200km (125 miles)
away.
Attackers crept up on
sleeping members of a group, which calls itself the Civilian Joint Task Force,
as they slept in a guesthouse and shot them dead, said a relative and a
military official speaking anonymously.
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