Nigeria air strike kills 52 in refugee camp

Nigeria’s air force killed at least 52 people and injured 120 in an air strike on a refugee camp in the country’s northeast on Tuesday, a spokesman from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said after the military earlier disclosed the strike was meant to target Boko Haram militants.

MSF said the strike occurred in Rann in Borno state, theepicentre of the jihadist group’s seven-year-long bid to createan Islamic caliphate. Nigerian General Lucky Irabor, a regional military commander, located the incident at Kala Balge, adistrict that includes Rann.