Suspected Boko Haram militants have ambushed and killed nine local security volunteers and a farmer in northeastern Nigeria, volunteers and police said on Friday.

The state-funded Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) is composed of locals recruited by the military in Nigeria’s Borno state and trained to help it combat jihadist insurgents.

A group of these vigilantes was reportedly ambushed on Thursday when they responded to the ki

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