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Nigerian returnees and people displaced by Boko Haram insurgence board a truck at Geidam after arriving in Nigeria, May 6, 2015. [Reuters]
At least 50 people were killed by militants on Sunday around the town of Rann in Nigeria's Borno state, in the country's northeastern tip near the border with Cameroon, witnesses told Reuters by phone on Monday.
Since 2009, Nigeria's northeast and Borno state, in particular, have been the centre of an insurgency led by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram.
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