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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rachel Savage and agencies

Survivors ask why busy market bombed in Nigerian anti-terror campaign

A patient in a hospital bed attached to a drip and a monitor, with a man sitting in a bed beside them
A patient in hospital after the Nigerian air force strikes, which hit a market in the north-east of the country. Photograph: AP Photo/AP

Survivors and observers have questioned the Nigerian military’s rationale for a devastating airstrike on a busy market that killed as many as 200 people, many of them civilians.

The hit on Jilli market on the border of the north-eastern Borno and Yobe states on Saturday is the latest in a string of attacks by the country’s air force over the past decade with a high civilian death toll.

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