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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Dyepkazah Shibayan and Tunde Omolehin

Nigerian military airstrike kills 100 civilians at a market, rights group claims

Nigeria Airstrike - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Nigeria 's military Tuesday denied a rights group's claim that an airstrike killed 100 civilians in a market over the weekend, as attention turned again to a long-running fight against armed groups in the country's volatile north.

Amnesty International in a statement Monday said a military airstrike on Sunday hit a market in Tumfa in Zamfara state. A Red Cross official in the state, Ibrahim Bello Garba, confirmed the strike to The Associated Press and said “multiple civilians” were killed.

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