63 abducted females escape extremists in Nigeria
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Haruna Umar and Michelle Faul
| July 8, 2014 - 6:22am
More than 60 Nigerian girls and women abducted by Islamic extremists two weeks ago have managed to escape, officials said yesterday, though more than 200 girls who were kidnapped in April remain missing.
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Over 50 Boko Haram terrorists killed in Nigeria
July 6, 2014 - 2:00pm
Over 50 militants from Boko Haram terrorist group were killed in a battle with the Nigerian army in northern Nigeria, local media Premium Times reported Saturday.
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60 females, 31 boys abducted in Nigeria
June 24, 2014 - 5:11pm
Witnesses say Islamic extremists have abducted 60 more girls and women and 31 boys from villages in northeast Nigeria.
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Nigerian official: Hundreds killed in attack
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Michelle Faul
| May 8, 2014 - 6:44am
Islamic militants killed hundreds of people in an attack on a border town in Nigeria's remote northeast, escalating the country's violent insurrection in which more than 270 schoolgirls have been kidnapped.
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Extremists slit throats of 44 in northeast Nigeria
August 24, 2013 - 5:40pm
An official says suspected Islamist extremists killed at least 44 villagers in continuing attacks in an Islamic uprising in...
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Attacks strike Nigeria churches, kill at least 6
June 11, 2012 - 8:15am
A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives outside a church in central Nigeria as gunmen attacked another church in the nation's northeast, killing at least six people and wounding dozens of others in the latest...
Christian's killing in Nigeria inflames tensions
February 24, 2012 - 8:24am
Police discovered the body of a 79-year-old Christian woman killed in northeast Nigeria, with a note in Arabic left on her chest reading: "We will get you soon," a witness said.
Bar shooting kills 8 in Nigeria
January 11, 2012 - 8:46am
At least eight people were killed Tuesday night at a beer parlor in the northeastern state of Yobe, said Nigerian authorities.
Nigeria sect kills 15; Christians vow defense
January 8, 2012 - 2:47am
A radical Muslim sect attacked a church worship service in Nigeria's northeast during assaults that killed at least 15 people, authorities said yesterday, as Christians vowed to defend themselves from the group's...
Six people killed in Nigerian attack by unknown gunmen
January 6, 2012 - 8:30am
At least six people have been killed in a church by unknown assailants in northeast Nigeria's Gombe State, Xinhua's reporter in the state said on phone.
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