Nigeria

Some 40 Boko Haram militants were killed when soldiers repelled the militants’ attack on a base in the Damboa area of Borno state during six hours of fighting; four soldiers were also killed and nine were wounded. Three civil servants were killed by Boko Haram in an ambush outside an agricultural college in Gujba in Yobe state; five women were abducted by the militants in the attack. A group of 40 gunmen stormed a police station in the Maradun area of Zamfara state, killing two children and injuring their mother.

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