Nigeria, May 10 -- An as-yet unascertained number of civilians have been reported killed in another aerial assault on Guradnayi, a settlement near Kusasu, one of the terrorised villages in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State.

This adds to other cases of [unresolved] accidental military airstrikes on many rural communities in Nigeria's conflict zones.

Multiple sources told our reporter that the incident happened in the early hours of Sunday. Pictures of the incident shared with this newspaper are too gory to be published.

"It happened around 5 a.m.," Auta Awododo, a resident of Kusasu, said, adding no fewer than 12 people were killed in his relative's residence in Guradnayi.

Mr Awododo said one of those was his cousin's son. ...