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Nigeria says it bombs terrorists. Children are collateral damage

The girl sat on the hospital bed next to her mother, her hair combed into plaits, barely moving from the pain of the weeping, pink burns that covered her legs. Her name was Aisha Kabiru and she was ten years old.

Two weeks ago she had gone out to buy tomatoes with her sister Amina when a combat aircraft from the Nigerian armed forces dropped a bomb in the middle of the crowded market in Tumfa.

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