About 20 safety officers and an unspecified variety of terrorists have been killed throughout a Tuesday midnight terror attack on a military base in Borno State.
Security sources informed PREMIUM TIMES that the attack, by jihadists both belonging to Boko Haram or the rival Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), focused the military base in Mairari, Guzamala Local Government Area (LGA).
Corroborating each other, the sources stated 15 troopers and 5 members of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) have been killed in the encounter.
The LG chairperson, Umar Sheriff, confirmed the attack to Punch, saying military operatives repelled it. Locals additionally informed the newspaper that many terrorists have been killed.
However, the military has not launched any official assertion in regards to the attack. The spokesperson for Operation Hadin Kai, a joint job pressure in the North-east, Mohammed Goni, has not responded to a PREMIUM TIMES enquiry into the incident.
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Last month, an ISWAP attack on a military place in Mairari was repelled by military forces with aerial assist. Four ISWAP terrorists have been killed in the attack, and a cache of weapons together with a digicam was recovered.
Boko Haram insurgency has lingered for greater than a decade, with consultants warning that the conflict just isn’t near its finish as a brand new technology of fighters now dominates the battlefield amid challenges posed by the rising use of recent applied sciences.
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