42 dead in Boko Haram attack on rice farmers

Bloomberg

Nigeria said Boko Haram insurgents attacked rice farmers in the country’s northeast, leaving at least 42 of them dead.
Insurgents ambushed farmers who had gone into rice fields in the Jere district of Borno state to bring in their harvest, according to a Nigerian presidency statement on Twitter.
“I condemn the killing of our hardworking farmers by terrorists,“ President Muhammadu Buhari said in the
statement. “The entire country is hurt by these senseless killings.”
Boko Haram extremists have waged a campaign of violence since 2009 to impose its version of Islamic law on Africa’s most populous country of more than 200 million people.
The government estimates that more than 30,000 people have died in the conflict.