At least 65 people killed in attack in Nigeria's Maiduguri city
Updated: 2016-01-31 22:23
(Agencies)
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - At least 65 people were killed on Saturday during an attack by Islamist militant group Boko Haram near Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri, a Reuters reporter said after counting bodies at a hospital morgue.
A Nigerian military spokesman, Colonel Mustapha Ankas, said that Boko Haram militants attacked the community of Dalori, about 5 km east of Maiduguri, on Saturday evening.
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