Nigeria
More than 500 people are killed in Nigeria.
Sources: Al Jazeera BBC
Sources: Al Jazeera BBC
Twelve people are killed and seven are rescued in a boat crash in Lafia, Nasarawa State, Nigeria.
At least 20 people are killed as gunmen open fire at a market and torch cars in Sokoto, Nigeria.
Unidentified militants attack Kuru-kuru and Jarkuka in Zamfara, Nigeria, killing dozens.
11 Islamist militants are killed in a shootout in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri.
Several people are killed in a series of bomb explosions in the city of Kano, Nigeria.