Mass grave found in former Boko Haram

Mass grave found in former Boko Haram-held town in Nigeria (GRAPHIC PHOTOS)

Troops from Niger and Chad discovered a mass grave with more than 90 decomposed bodies near a northern Nigerian town recently retaken from the Islamic militant group Boko Haram, security sources from both countries said Friday.The corpses, some of them beheaded, were found in a shallow mass grave under a bridge just outside the Nigerian town of Damasak, near the border with Niger, 

 Troops from Niger and Chad took back the town from Boko Haram last week during a joint operation, the security sources said.

 

Damasak is in Borno, one of several northern states inhabited by the Islamist militant group. Borno is in the northeast corner of Nigeria and borders Niger, Chad and Cameroon.