Breaking!! Reuters Is Reporting Nigerian Army in Pursuit of Terrorists – 200 Killed

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, April 12 (Reuters) – Nigerian military jets struck a village market while pursuing Islamist

militants in the northeast on Saturday night, with at least 200 civilians feared dead, a councillor for the area and residents said on Sunday.

The incident happened in a Yobe state remote and unnamed village, on the border with Borno state, the heartland of a long-running insurgency that has killed thousands and displaced millions more.

(Reporting by Ahmed Kingimi and Adewale Kolawole in Maiduguri and Hamza Ibrahim in Kano.

Writing by MacDonald Dzirutwe

Editing by David Goodman)