Bodies remain littered on the
streets of a northern Nigerian town two days after it was seized
by militant Islamists, a lawmaker told the BBC Thursday.
Boko Haram fighters were patrolling the streets of Bama,
preventing people from burying the dead, Ahmed Zanna said.
On Wednesday the state government denied the town had
fallen.
Officials said about 26,000 people had been displaced by
fighting in Bama, a key town in the battle for control of
Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state.
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