At Least 64 Killed in Village Clashes
At least 64 people, including a soldier and seven policemen, were shot and hacked to death in clashes in northeastern Nigeria, police and Red Cross officials said.
The officials said farmers and nomadic herdsmen clashed several times in the state of Gombe, where at least 24 people died, and in adjacent Adamawa state, where at least 40 were killed.
Police said they were investigating reports by villagers that armed Chadians triggered the carnage in Adamawa with an invasion of one of the most remote corners of Nigeria.
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