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Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Maiduguri 'preachers kill dozens' Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Maiduguri 'preachers kill dozens'
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Suspected Boko Haram militants have launched an attack in a village near the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing about 45 people.Suspected Boko Haram militants have launched an attack in a village near the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing about 45 people.
Survivors told the BBC the attackers said they had come to preach to the crowd, before opening fire on them.Survivors told the BBC the attackers said they had come to preach to the crowd, before opening fire on them.
Meanwhile, residents and officials say at least 200 people were killed in a wave of attacks earlier this week.
Maiduguri and surrounding areas have not suffered many attacks since a state of emergency was imposed a year ago.Maiduguri and surrounding areas have not suffered many attacks since a state of emergency was imposed a year ago.
Instead more remote regions have become the targets of the Islamist group's raids. Remote areas are now usually targeted instead.
Nigeria's government has been facing growing pressure both at home and abroad to do more to tackle the group since militants kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in April.Nigeria's government has been facing growing pressure both at home and abroad to do more to tackle the group since militants kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in April.
Boko Haram has waged an increasingly bloody insurgency since 2009 in an attempt to create an Islamic state in Nigeria. Boko Haram has waged an increasingly bloody insurgency since 2009 in an attempt to create an Islamic state in Nigeria - and thousands of people have died in their attacks and the subsequent security crackdown.
Villagers 'tricked'
The militants came into the village of Barderi, near the University of Maiduguri on the outskirts of the city on Wednesday night, telling people to gather to hear them preach, but then turned the guns on the crowd.
The insurgents have used various tricks to gather residents together when they enter a village before attacking them.
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In Tuesday's attack on Attagara village in the remote Gwoza area of Borno state, people believed the gunmen - who were dressed in military uniforms - were soldiers who had come to provide protection after an earlier attack on Sunday.
Attagara is one of six villages, where a total of at least 200 people are believed to have been killed.
They are near the Mandara Mountains, a known Boko Haram hideout close to the border with Cameroon.
The local MP, Peter Biye, told the BBC that when residents gathered in the church compound, the gunmen started shooting them.
He said that he feared at least 200 people had been killed but said it was impossible to know exactly how many because everyone who could do so, had fled into the nearby hills and there was no-one to count the bodies.
There are reports that Boko Haram's jihadist flags are flying in several villages in Gwoza.
The BBC's Nigeria correspondent Will Ross says when President Goodluck Jonathan ordered a military assault on Boko Haram more than a year ago he admitted that some parts of Borno state were no longer under the control of the state.