World Apr 14, 2026 · 1 min read

Survivors ask why busy market bombed in Nigerian anti-terror campaign

Military has described devastating attack that killed up to 200 people, many of them civilians, as a ‘precision airstrike’Survivors and observers have questioned the Nigerian military’s rationale for a devastating airstrike on a busy market that killed as many as 200 people, many of them civilians.T...

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by Rachel Savage and agencies
Survivors ask why busy market bombed in Nigerian anti-terror campaign

Military has described devastating attack that killed up to 200 people, many of them civilians, as a ‘precision airstrike’

Survivors and observers have questioned the Nigerian military’s rationale for a devastating airstrike on a busy market that killed as many as 200 people, many of them civilians.

The hit on Jilli market on the border of the north-eastern Borno and Yobe states on Saturday is the latest in a string of attacks by the country’s air force over the past decade with a high civilian death toll.

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