Kathleen Kamstra / Johannerburg, Dec 29 () - Boko Haram militants have killed 21 people in the village of Dawari, on the outskirts of the city of Maiduguri in Nigeria’s northeast.

The militants entered the village on three trucks late on Sunday, firing “indiscriminately,” according to residents. It has been claimed that security forces killed ten of the militants during the raid.

Not long afterwards, on Monday morning, a female suicide bomber detonated herself near a mosque in the Maiduguri, killing one person.