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Devastating attack killed up to 200 people, many of them civilians, with military saying it was a \u2018precision airstrike\u2019<\/p>\n

Survivors and observers have questioned the Nigerian military\u2019s rationale for a devastating airstrike on a busy market<\/a> that killed as many as 200 people, many of them civilians.<\/p>\n

The hit on Jilli market on the border of the north-eastern Borno and Yobe states on Saturday is the latest in a string of attacks by the country\u2019s air force over the past decade with a high civilian death toll.<\/p>\n

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