Amnesty International says more than 100 people killed in military attack on a market in Jilli village.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 12 Apr 2026<\/span>12 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Dozens of people are feared dead after Nigerian military aircraft struck a village market while pursuing members of the rebel group Boko Haram in the country\u2019s northeast, according to a local official and an international human rights group.<\/p>\n Amnesty International said in a post on social media on Sunday that more than 100 people had been killed and 35 others wounded in the attack the previous day.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n Local chief Lawan Zanna Nur Geidam told the AFP news agency that \u201cthe total casualties, dead and injured, is around 200\u201d.<\/p>\n The strike occurred on the Jilli village in Yobe state on the border with Borno state, the heartland of a long-running rebellion that has killed thousands of people and displaced millions more.<\/p>\n Nigeria\u2019s Air Force said in a statement that it had killed Boko Haram fighters in an air strike on the Jilli axis in Borno state. It did not mention hitting a market.<\/p>\n The government of Yobe state later said in a statement that an air strike on the area had been conducted near a market that people were attending.<\/p>\n \u201cSome people from Geidam LGA [local government area] bordering Gubio LGA in Borno state, who went to the Jilli weekly market, were affected,\u201d said Brigadier General Dahiru Abdulsalam, military adviser to the Yobe state government. He gave no further details.<\/p>\n The Yobe State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) said it had received preliminary reports of an incident at the Jilli market \u201cwhich reportedly resulted in casualties affecting some marketers\u201d and activated the emergency response.<\/p>\n Zanna Nur said that many of the injured were taken to hospitals in nearby Geidam and Maiduguri.<\/p>\n A worker at the Geidam General hospital, in Yobe, said at least 23 people injured in the incident were receiving treatment, the Associated Press news agency reported.<\/p>\n Amnesty International condemned the strike, saying that \u201claunching air raids is not a legitimate law enforcement method by anyone\u2019s standard. Such reckless use of deadly force is unlawful, outrageous and lays bare the Nigerian military\u2019s shocking disregard for the lives of those it supposedly exists to protect\u201d.<\/p>\n Amnesty called on Nigerian authorities to \u201cimmediately and impartially investigate the incident and ensure that suspected perpetrators are held to account\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Amnesty International says more than 100 people killed in military attack on a market in Jilli village. Published On 12 Apr 202612 Apr 2026 Dozens of people are feared dead after Nigerian military aircraft struck a village market while pursuing members of the rebel group Boko Haram in the country\u2019s northeast, according to a local […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Mariamne_Everett_7977BW-1753807553-1-1753852780.jpg?resize=96%2C96&quality=80)
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