Thursday, 19 February 2015

Airstrike mistakenly kills 37 mourners in Niger-Nigeria border



According to the news from CNN, an anonymous reporter told them on Wednesday that a military jet in operation dropped a bomb on mourners in a funeral gathering, the report says the jet where the bomb came from was flying around the Abadam Faransa village, the airstrike was targeted at the Boko Haram insurgents that have launching frequent attacks in Chad and Nigeria.

They dropped the bomb in a funeral gathering and it killed about 37 people and got several other mourners injured on Tuesday. One of the community members said 20 people were injured due to the incident.

It wasn’t certain whose military carried out the operation, it was blamed on Nigeria, but the Nigerian military has said, it cannot be them as they didn’t carry out such operation in that area on Tuesday.

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