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BOKO Haram extremists in north-east Nigeria are turning their guns on the elderly, civil defence groups said at the weekend.
Residents from five villages said people too old to flee the Gwoza local government area have been rounded up and taken to two schools where the militants shot them.
“What they are doing now is to assemble the aged people — both men and women — and then they just open fire on them,” said Muhammed Gava, a spokesman for the civil defence groups in the area.
More than 50 people had been killed at the school in Gwoza, he said.
A villager who had fled said more elderly people were being gathered and shot at Uvaghe Central Primary School.
Nigeria’s military said soldiers were patrolling “in search of the terrorists” and “to verify abductions” around Gumburi, where extremists kidnapped 185 people a week ago.
