The REUTERS news agency has withdrawn its controversial story portraying the Nigerian Joint Task Force, JTF, shooting unarmed captives in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

In the story, published Sunday, REUTERS reported it was in possession of an amateur video showing Nigerian soldiers murdering its unarmed captives.

But shortly after the story was published, the JTF faulted the video, saying it contained manipulated footages put together by propagandists to ridicule the Nigerian military.

In what must be a huge professional humiliation, the news agency has now pulled down the report from its website, and publishing in its place a notice announcing the withdrawal of the story.

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