Maiduguri, Nigeria, Sept 19, 2025 (AFP) - Nigerians play dead, run through flames to survive Boko Haram attack

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2025-09-19

Umar Bulama lay among the corpses, hoping that Boko Haram fighters would mistake him for one of the dead after a brutal attack on a northern Nigerian town. Pressing his face "into the blood-soaked sand", Bulama, 34, was lucky: he survived the September 5 assault on the northeastern town of Darul Jamal near the Cameroonian border. The town was mostly abandoned after a Boko Haram assault about a decade ago and people like Bulama had only started r......

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