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Suspected Boko Haram militants attacked seven villages in Borno state with IEDs and petrol bombs, killing 15 people, burning houses, and seizing livestock and food. Police confiscated weapons and police uniforms from a Boko Haram hideout in Yobe state. Some 30 gunmen stormed a medium-security prison in Ondo state and freed 175 inmates. A youth vigilante group in Maiduguri detained two women who were each smuggling an AK-47, a pistol, and an IED under heavy veils.