New York Times

Military officials said attacks were launched against the Boko Haram Islamist group in border areas in a forest south of the city of Maiduguri.

Troops have begun deploying in the wake of President Goodluck Jonathan’s declaration of a state of emergency in parts of the north, but critics fear more civilian deaths.

Admitting that Islamist extremists now control some of his nation’s villages and towns, President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency on Tuesday across Nigeria’s troubled northeast.

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The military’s harsh tactics have curtailed militant attacks in the north, a stronghold of Boko Haram, but at a huge cost and with likely repercussions.

Members of the Jukun ethnic group were marching through the town of Wukari, on their way to a funeral, when an argument broke out with local Hausa and Fulani youths.