Crime
Casualties as ISWAP ambush soldiers granted leave
A unit of Nigerian soldiers and vigilante passing from Marte to Dikwa in Borno ran into an ambush by ISWAP on the weekend.
The terrorists opened fire on the convoy accompanying soldiers granted leave to pass when one of the military vehicles hit the explosives buried in the road.
According to PRNigeria, the attack occurred the same day troops repelled ISWAP at a military base in Malam Fatori in Borno and Babangida community in Yobe.
The reprisal was about the first in weeks after the federal troops and the MNJTF have been pounding the terrorists, killing their leader Au Al Barnawi.
ISWAP, under Aboubacar Oucacha Fiya, has been trying to stamp its dominion on the Sambisa forest after it fell from the stranglehold f Boko Haram’s late leader Abubakar Shekau.
No fewer than 12 soldiers and vigilantes died in the Marte-Dikwa road ambush.
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