Many dead bodies found with their throats slit, in Damasak, at Borno state, northeast Nigeria after it was freed from Boko Haram militants.
Soldiers from Chad and Niger who have liberated Damasak from the Islamist group said they discovered the bodies under a bridge on one of the main roads leading out of the town.
Damasak was seized by Boko Haram in November but recaptured by troops from Niger and Chad on 9 March as part of a multinational effort to wipe out the militants.
Damasak resident Mbodou Moussa said: "People were in town when they (Boko Haram) attacked, they fired at us, we ran away to the bushes but they continued to fire and chased some people to kill them."
A strong smell of decomposition in many parts of town suggested there could be more bodies concealed there, the Reuters witness said.
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