Boko Haram: Five Soldiers Dead, 30 Missing After Attack - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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April 29, 2019
Securitysources have said that At least five Nigerian soldiers were killed and some 30are missing three days after Boko Haram jihadis overran an army base,
Gunmenfrom the Islamic State West Africa Province,ISWAP, the IS-linked faction ofBoko Haram, attacked the base in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state on Friday.
ISWAPfighters on Friday launched an assault on the base at Mararrabar Kimba, 135kilometres from the state capital Maiduguri.
Thefighters, reportedly driving over a dozen pickup trucks with heavy machine gunswelded onto the back, were accompanied by three armoured personnel carriers andflanked by a fleet of gunmen firing from motorbikes.
Asecond officer confirmed the toll of five dead.
Thedecade-long jihadist conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and forcedmillions from their homes.The violence hasspread to neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, prompting a regional militarycoalition against the jihadists