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Jihadists linked to the Islamic State group killed dozens of people in an assault on a village in northeast Nigeria, local sources said Sunday, as the toll rose from a second attack. Inhabitants of remote Goni Usmanti told AFP that Islamist fighters gunned down 38 people in a raid on Saturday and set a truck ablaze killing an unknown number of passengers. Separately, security sources and residents said the death toll from a second attack Saturday on the town of Monguno, 60 kilometres (40 miles) away, had risen to 15, including nine soldiers. abu/del/bp
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