Boko Haram militants kill 9 people and injure 4 in northeastern Nigeria, authorities say

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FILE - A pistillate and young miss displaced from Boko Haram attacks propulsion a cart successful Dikwa, Borno province, northbound eastbound Nigeria, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File) (Sunday Alamba, Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

ABUJA – Islamic extremists killed 9 radical and injured 4 successful Borno authorities successful northeastern Nigeria, authorities said Sunday.

The onslaught was carried retired by Boko Haram militants connected the Malam Fatori community, Babagana Zulum, the authorities governor, said. He did not accidental erstwhile the onslaught happened.

The community, precise adjacent to the borderline of Chad, is astir 270 kilometers (167 miles) from Maiduguri, Borno’s superior city.

The governor, represented by Sugun Mai Mele, the commissioner for section governments, visited the assemblage and warned residents against collaborating with Boko Haram militants.

“Anyone recovered collaborating with the insurgents to bring harm oregon onslaught to the radical of Malam Fatori volition beryllium cursed,” helium said, adding that determination are measures being enactment successful spot to fortify the municipality against aboriginal attacks.

A resurgence of Boko Haram attacks has been shaking Nigeria’s northeast successful caller months, arsenic Islamic extremists person repeatedly overrun subject outposts, mined roads with bombs and raided civilian communities, raising fears of a imaginable instrumentality to peak Boko Haram-era insecurity contempt the military’s claims of successes.

Last month, a termination bomber suspected to beryllium pistillate killed astatine slightest 10 radical and injured respective others successful an detonation successful a edifice successful the Konduga country of Borno, arsenic the authorities struggles to curb attacks by the extremists.

Boko Haram, Nigeria’s homegrown jihadis, took up arms successful 2009 to combat Western acquisition and enforce their extremist mentation of Islamic law. The struggle besides has spilled into Nigeria’s bluish neighbors.

Some 35,000 civilians person been killed and much than 2 cardinal displaced successful Nigeria's northeastern region, according to the U.N.

Apart from the insurgency successful the northeast, Africa’s astir populous state is besides facing superior information challenges successful the north-central and northwest regions, wherever hundreds person been killed and injured successful caller months.

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