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Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents have soldiers, police and civilians in Buni Yadi, after they entered the town late in the evening and began shooting sporadically near a police post. The son of the Yobe Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP) youth leader Alhaji Ado Bomboy was killed in the attack while many shops, houses and two telecommunications masts were also razed. It is not clear if the attackers, numbering 50, had a particular civilian or military target in mind. 100 "feared" dead. |
