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A photo taken on March 15, 2015 and released by the Nigerian Army press service the next day shows troops crossing the Kaffin-Hausa bridge earlier destroyed by terrorists and reconstructed by military engineers at Damasak in northeastern Nigeria Borno State. A military offensive by troops from Chad and Niger on March 9, 2015 has retaken the northeastern Nigerian town of Damasak and left some 200 Islamists dead, a Chadian security source said Monday. Boko Haram had held the town near the Niger border since November. AFP PHOTO/HO/NIGERIAN ARMY