Adam Abu-bashal
27 December 2022•Update: 27 December 2022
ABUJA, Nigeria
More than one dozen civilians were killed late Monday by Boko Haram terrorists in northeastern Nigeria, according to media reports.
The terrorists attacked herders guarding cattle in a pasture near the of village Airamne in Borno state, said reports.
Seventeen herders were killed in the fight and their cattle were taken away.
Boko Haram launched a bloody insurgency in northeastern Nigeria in 2009 before expanding to neighboring Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
More than 20,000 lives have been lost to the insurgency.
*Writing by Zehra Nur Duz.
