Islamic extremists killed at least 25 fishermen during an attack in north-eastern Nigeria’s Borno state, the police told The Associated Press on Thursday.
The rebels attacked the fishermen in the remote Mukdolo village of Borno where the years-long extremist violence is concentrated, said a local police chif.
Some of the bodies in the Wednesday attack were recovered and buried on Thursday, he said. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and largest economy, continues to grapple with a 14-year-old insurgency in the northeast by Islamic extremist rebels of Boko Haram.
The extremists are fighting to establish Shariah law and to stop Western education.
More than 35,000 people have died and over 2 million have been displaced by the extremist violence, according to the U.N. Development Program.
