Nigerian military jet strikes market, 200 feared dead in state northeast Yobe

Nigerian military jet strikes market, 200 feared dead in state northeast Yobe
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At least 200 people are feared dead after Nigerian military jets struck a village market while pursuing extremist militants in the northeast of the country on Saturday night, Al Arabiya English reported.

Nigeria’s Air Force said it had killed Boko Haram militants in the Jilli axis in Borno state, but in a statement released to Reuters on Sunday it did not mention hitting a market. It did not respond to further requests for comment.

The strike occurred in a village in Yobe on the border with Borno, the heartland of a long-running insurgency that has killed thousands of people and displaced millions more.

The Yobe State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) said it had received preliminary reports of an incident at Jilli Market “which reportedly resulted in casualties affecting some marketers” and activated emergency response.