Unknown Jet Kills 36 Civilians In Borno

About 36 civilians were reported killed on Wednesday when an unidentified airplane bombed a Nigerian border village. It was on a day that 300 Boko Haram militants were killed in military operations to clear 11 communities of the Islamist insurgents.

Two military officials in the town of Bosso, where soldiers from Chad and Niger are massed in preparation for operations against Boko Haram, said the incident occurred in a village across the border in the Abadam area of Borno State.

“We don’t know whose plane it was. We understand that the victims are residents who were gathered for a funeral ceremony but who were mistaken for terrorists. Around 30 people perished,” a military source said.