Survivors ask why Nigeria bombed busy market in effort to target jihadist group

Devastating attack killed up to 200 people, many of them civilians, with military saying it was a ‘precision airstrike’

Survivors and observers have questioned the Nigerian military’s rationale for a devastating airstrike on a busy market that killed as many as 200 people, many of them civilians.

The hit on Jilli market on the border of the north-eastern Borno and Yobe states on Saturday is the latest in a string of attacks by the country’s air force over the past decade with a high civilian death toll.

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