ABUJA, Nigeria
More than one dozen civilians were killed late Monday by Boko Haram terrorists in northeastern Nigeria, according to media reports.
The terrorists attacked herders guarding cattle in a pasture near the of village Airamne in Borno state, said reports.
Seventeen herders were killed in the fight and their cattle were taken away.
Boko Haram launched a bloody insurgency in northeastern Nigeria in 2009 before expanding to neighboring Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
More than 20,000 lives have been lost to the insurgency.
