Nigeria military says killed 50 Boko Haram fighters

Nigeria's military today said it had killed 50 Boko Haram Islamists in an operation launched in response to an insurgent attack on civilians in the northeast.

"Troops pursued the terrorists to their camps with air support and about 50 insurgents were killed in a shootout," Sagir Musa, the area military spokesman, told journalists in the northeastern city of Maiduguri.