After a jihadist attack on rice fields in Nigeria's northeast Borno State, residents hold a funeral under armed guard for the farmers killed in the assault. Suspected Boko Haram jihadists stormed rice fields in the Zabarmari district outside the regional capital Maiduguri late on Sunday, seizing farmers and slitting their throats while abducting others, sources told AFP. Farmers are often targeted by Islamist militants waging a 14-year conflict in Nigeria's northeast, where 40,000 people have been killed and more than two million displaced since 2009. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES