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Boko Haram fighters mass in Gwoza, several residents killed

The leader of the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau ©- (Boko Haram/AFP/File)

Boko Haram fighters have massed in northeast Nigeria’s Gwoza and killed several residents in the town considered to be the group’s headquarters, a witness and a senator said Thursday.

The leader of the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram Abubakar Shekau ©- (Boko Haram/AFP/File)

Senator Ali Ndume told AFP he had received reports of the insurgent build-up in the town where Boko Haram last year had declared its caliphate.

Ndume and a woman who fled Gwoza on Tuesday said militant fighters had also killed several male residents.

 

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