Boko Haram militants kill hundreds in northeastern Nigeria

Boko Haram fighters are reported to have killed hundreds of people in a renewed assault after capturing a key town and military base in northeast Nigeria.

The group's fighters initially captured the town of Baga and the headquarters of the Multinational Joint Task Force, which is made of troops from Nigeria, Niger and Chad, on Saturday.

At least one hundred people were killed when Boko Haram first took over the town on the edge of Lake Chad.

The fighters then razed several towns and villages in Borno state in the following days.

The armed group has seized more than two dozen towns in northeast Nigeria in the last six months, and now controls all three of Borno's borders with Niger, Chad and Cameroon.

BBC