DHAKA: The death toll from an attack in northeastern Nigeria that saw insurgents dressed as soldiers set up checkpoints and gun down travellers on a highway has risen to at least 142.

A Nigeria official said on Sunday, reports The Straits Times.

‘We recovered 55 bodies on Wednesday and 87 on Thursday,’ Abdulaziz Kolomi, an official with the environmental protection agency in Borno state, where the attack occurred, told media.

The previous toll from the attack in the Benisheik area was 87.

BDST: 1818 HRS, SEPT 22, 2013
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