Thursday 18 September 2014

450 Boko Haram killed in a shoot out with Nigerian military


Over 450 members of the dreaded Boko Haram  Islamic sect  may have been killed in a shoot out with the Nigerian military in  parts of troubled Borno state,  it was learnt Wednesday

The source, a member of the Civilian JTF, disclosed that the insurgents were repelled back from both Ngamdu, about 100 kilometres from Maiduguri on the Maiduguri-Damaturu road and Konduga, about 40 kilometres on the Maiduguri-Bama road.
He said they were probably heading towards Maiduguri from the two opposite directions, The source   claimed  that the soldiers of the Nigerian Army 7 division, headquarters in Maiduguri stationed in the two towns, Konduga and Ngamdu engaged the insurgents in heavy confrontation at the break of the day and killed about 300 in Konduga where they had equally repelled them last week  during which  over 100 insurgents were killed.
He added that in Ngamdu, 150 insurgents were killed in the exchange of gunfire.
The source, who spoke on phone with Thisdaylive's Correspondent on Wednesday afternoon, said: "As I am talking to you the corpses of the insurgents are lying the streets in the two towns."

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