Nigeria, Jan. 4 -- Terrorists suspected to be members of the Sadiku-led Boko Haram faction have raided Kasuwan Daji, a Niger State village roughly 23 kilometres from Papiri, where schoolchildren were abducted last year.
The attack occurred on the evening of 3 January. Multiple sources told our reporter that the terrorists killed at least 35 people and kidnapped an unspecified number of others, mostly women and children.
Our sources, whose names have been withheld for security reasons, said the terrorists set fire to many houses, including the village's market, before leaving.
"We cannot estimate the number of houses burnt now, but I personally counted 35 bodies," a source who lives about four kilometres away from the village said.
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