An injured person being comforted at the site after a bombing attack of an internally displaced persons camp in Rann, Nigeria, on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Reutersmore-inNigeria's air force killed at least 52 people and injured 120 in an air strike on a refugee camp in the country's northeast on Tuesday, a spokesman from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said after the military earlier disclosed the strike was meant to target Boko Haram militants. MSF said the strike occurred in Rann in Borno state, theepicentre of the jihadist group's seven-year-long bid to createan Islamic caliphate. “At least 52 people were killed and 120 wounded,” said TimShenk, a spokesman for the MSF medical charity. The air strike came amid an offensive against Boko Haram byNigeria's military over the last few weeks.

Source: The Hindu January 18, 2017 02:44 UTC