Airstrikes by Nigerian military forces targeting suspected jihadists in the northwest Sokoto state killed 10 civilians and injured six others, local officials said Thursday.
The strikes were aimed at positions of the Lakurawa jihadist group in a forest in Silame district but instead hit Gidan Bisa and Runtawa, two villages on the edge of the forest, destroying homes and livestock.
Sokoto's state governor Ahmad Aliyu blamed the deaths on an"accidental misfire from the Nigerian army", without giving a toll. An aide to President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday walked back his earlier claim that the civilian deaths were fake news. "The targets struck... have been positively identified as associated with the Lakurawa group, reinforcing the justification for the military action taken," Lieutenant Colonel Abubakar Abdullahi said in a statement.
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