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Hundreds of people have been killed in Nigeria after a military strike hit one of the country’s busiest markets in the northeastern part of the country.

Some shit you should know before you dig in: If you’re unaware, Nigeria has been battling a jihadist insurgency since Boko Haram’s 2009 uprising (a conflict that’s killed more than 40,000 people and displaced around two million). The violence is concentrated in the northeast, and at least 530 civilians have died in Nigerian military airstrikes since 2017, a pattern analysts attribute to bad intelligence and a persistent breakdown in communication between the people on the ground and the jets in the air.

What’s going on now: According to Amnesty International, at least 100 people were killed and 35 others seriously wounded when the strike hit Jilli village on the Borno-Yobe state border during a packed weekly market. A civilian security group member told AP there was intelligence that Boko Haram fighters were gathering near the market ahead of a planned attack on surrounding communities, and that the airstrike was based on that information. Security analysts say the market has long been known locally as a place where fighters move freely, collect illegal taxes from traders, and stock up on supplies.

Nigeria’s military called it “a carefully, well-coordinated, planned, and intelligence-driven operation” that struck “a known terrorist enclave and logistics hub” near Jilli and killed scores of militants riding motorcycles. It made no mention of civilian casualties.

In an interview with AP, Amnesty International’s Nigeria director, Isa Sanusi, said, “We are in touch with people that are there, we spoke with the hospital. We spoke with the person in charge of casualties, and we spoke with the victims. We have their pictures and they include children.”

Local council member Malam Lawan Zanna put the toll even higher: “The figures are not certain, as we are still recovering bodies. But as I am speaking, over 200 people have lost their lives from the airstrike at the market.”

This all comes as the US has deployed around 200 troops to Nigeria since February to run near-daily drone surveillance missions targeting the same insurgent networks the Nigerian military says it was pursuing when Saturday’s strike went wrong. As of now, the Pentagon has not commented.