Jihadists killed at least 63 people in northeastern Nigeria while storming a town whose residents had been returned from a displacement camp, the state governor said.

The Friday night assault struck the town of Darul Jamal, which hosts a military base on the Nigeria-Cameroon border in a zone ravaged by jihadist attacks.

Babagana Zulum, governor of the embattled Borno state, said that five soldiers were among the dead, a figure confirmed to AFP by a security source.

The latest attack raises questions about Nigeria’s push in recent years to close down camps for internally displaced persons and return their inhabitants to the countryside.

“It’s very sad, this community was resettled some months ago and they went about their normal business,” Zulum told journalists at the scene of the atta

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