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‘They killed my sons’: chief of Nigerian village where jihadists massacred hundreds recounts night of terror

‘They killed my sons’: chief of Nigerian village where jihadists massacred hundreds recounts night of terror

Umar Bio Salihu, 53, the local head of Woro in Kwara state, says gunmen ‘just came in and started shooting’The traditional chief of a village in western Nigeria where has recounted a night of terror during which the attackers killed two of his sons and kidnapped his wife and three daughters.Umar Bio Salihu, the 53-year-old chief of Woro, a small, Muslim-majority village in Kwara state, said that at about 5pm on Tuesday the gunmen “just came in and started shooting”.

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