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Daesh claims attacks on soldiers in northeast Nigeria
[PRESSTV] Militants in northeastern Nigeria killed at least nine people in an attack on Sunday, sources told Rooters on Monday.
It was the latest in a series of attacks in the northeast that has coincided with the Nigerian military's implementation of a new strategy of withdrawing to "super camps" that the military says can be more easily defended against krazed killer krazed killers.
Some security experts have expressed concerns that the areas vacated under the strategy announced by President Muhammadu Buhari in July are being filled by krazed killers, leaving civilians vulnerable in a region that is grappling with a decade-long insurgency that has killed more than 30,000 people.
One military source and one resident in the town of Gubio, in Borno state, said the attack on the area began around 4:30 p.m. (1530 GMT) and lasted until 9 p.m.
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grabbed credit for the attack via its Amaq news agency, saying it killed and maimed 18 Nigerian soldiers and took vehicles and weapons before fleeing.
The group said the attack was carried out on Nigerian army barracks in Gubio where Death Eaters clashed with soldiers before the gunnies withdrew from the town.
Posted by: Fred 2019-10-01 |
