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More Than 100 Farm Workers Killed by Boko Haram in Nigeria: U.N.

Many of the victims were bound and had their throats slit.

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Borno State Handout

By Barbie Latza Nadeau

Boko Haram is believed to have killed at least 110 farm workers in northeast Nigeria in what the country’s president has called an “insane” terrorist attack. Others were badly wounded, and still more are missing. “I am outraged and horrified by the gruesome attack against civilians,” Edward Kallon, the UN resident and humanitarian coordinator in Nigeria told Bloomberg. Many of the victims reportedly had their throats slit. On Friday the farm workers had disarmed a Boko Haram terrorist who had threatened them.

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