Nigeria: Boko Haram Cluster Bombs May Come From Nigerian Military

14 October 2015

Though the military has warned civilians that Boko Haram is using deadly cluster bombs, campaigners have said members of the Islamist sect may have got the banned weapons from the military in the first place.

Defence spokesman, Col. Rabe Abubakar, urged people to be on their guard for "cluster bombs, sometimes called scatter bombs," as engineers had recently found caches in Adamawa State.

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