Airstrike by Nigeria, U.S. ally in opposition to Islamist militants, kills scores | EUROtoday

First got here the thunderous increase. Then the air billowed with thick black smoke. Fires had been “everywhere,” survivors stated. Scores of individuals lay useless.

The Nigerian navy, with whom the U.S. navy is preventing a rising Islamist menace, initially declared the assault on a weekend market within the distant desert village of Jilli a profitable strike “on a known terrorist enclave.” But eyewitnesses describe a starkly completely different scene: The greater than 100 folks killed, they are saying, had been merchants and different members of the neighborhood, and included ladies and kids.