Nigerian insurgents target farming community
International | Latest killings reignite demand for stronger government response
by Onize Ohikere
Posted 12/04/20, 05:10 pm
Local officials and residents of the Zabarmari community in northeastern Nigeria gathered around the bodies of 43 slain farmers and fishermen during a funeral on Sunday. Boko Haram extremists attacked them early Saturday morning while they worked in a nearby rice field in Jere, Nigeria. The community shrouded each of them in white cloths, prayed, and laid them to rest in mass graves.