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Publisher (J.T)
June 18, 2019
Suspected Boko Haram insurgents haveoverrun a military base and looted a nearby town in northeast.
A Nigeria security sources andresidents said today the latest such attack occurred in the restive north eastregion.
The raids came a day after 30 peoplewere killed in a triple suicide bombing in the region that also bore thehallmarks of Boko Haram.
Boko Haram’s decade-long campaign ofviolence has killed 27,000 people and displaced about two million in Nigeria.
Residents said the insurgents droveinto the town after sacking the base and looted shops, shooting into the air.
Soldiers were seen returning to thetown from the bush today morning.
Residents who returned to the townTraffic on the main road through Gajiram was suspended as soldiers assessed thedamage in the base.
The attacks appeared to be the workof a Boko Haram faction loyal to longtime leader Abubakar Shekau.