It was late in the evening on Christmas Day when residents of the mainly Muslim village of Jabo in Sokoto state, north-west Nigeria, said they noticed an object resembling a small aircraft flying overhead.
“Shortly after, we heard a loud explosion and saw a huge ball of fire,” one resident told local media. “Everyone was terrified. People rushed out of their houses with their families and started running in different directions.”
The scene, repeated in at least two other settlements in Sokoto state, which borders on Nigeria’s neighbour Niger, was part of what US President Donald Trump called “a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria”.
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