NIGER'S army has killed 14 civilians who were mistaken for militants of the Islamist group Boko Haram in the remote southeast, officials say.

The victims, all unarmed farmers, were in a restricted zone around the village of Abadam, next to the Nigerian border.

Two were from Niger, and the rest were from Nigeria. Details of how the operation unfolded and why the civilians were there were not clear.

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Boko Haram is based in Nigeria but has carried out cross-border attacks.

Thousands of people have been displaced from the south-eastern Diffa region and civilians have been banned from many areas.

Many, however, have been returning to tend their crops, correspondents say.

There were conflicting reports about the army's operation. The AFP news agency said an air strike had killed the group after they returned to check on their crops. But Reuters said soldiers were patrolling the area when they opened fire.

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Is a pity, but why will anyone venture into restricted area in a place like borno in time like this.

How funny

What a Bleep!!

Zoooooooooooooooooo army

Tha Fvck!!!!

conductor7:
Zoooooooooooooooooo army

Mumu It Is Niger

This is wrong..... very very...

Edopesin:

Mumu It Is Niger

Nigger area and Niger Republic will merge to form another useless fake giant of Africa when Biafra seceeds so practically, it's still the same zoooooooooooooooooo army.

conductor7:
Zoooooooooooooooooo army

Ode ni guy oo

Useless untrained fools

useless west African countries

waiting for biafra to liberate them all

When they can bomb IDP camps is it farmers they wont kill?

All those pics with dead Boko Haram suspects with dane guns comes to mind.

What I do know is that some Jihadists elements in the Nigerian military are carrying out ethno-religious cleansing and putting pictures of killed hunters as Boko Haram.