By Camillus Eboh
At the very least 50 Boko Haram fighters had been killed on Tuesday and 7 members of Nigeria’s infrastructure safety drive had been lacking following an rebel ambush on a convoy monitoring the nation’s energy grid installations, a spokesperson mentioned.
Boko Haram, which has waged an insurgency for 15 years primarily within the northeast, has been weakened by the army and inside preventing however stays a menace because it makes lethal assaults towards civilians and authorities targets.
Babawale Afolabi, spokesperson for the Nigerian Civil Defence Corp, a authorities company set as much as defend infrastructure, mentioned safety operatives had been ambushed by about 200 Boko Haram fighters throughout the patrol mission.
Afolabi mentioned greater than 50 insurgents had been killed within the preventing however seven operatives had been lacking, including that efforts are underway to search out them within the bush. He mentioned “a couple of others” of the safety drive had been wounded.
Though Boko Haram primarily operates within the northeast, Nigerian authorities say the group has cells within the largely Muslim Niger state, the place they’ve beforehand carried assaults towards the army and civilians.
In a separate assault in northeast Borno state, a army spokesperson mentioned 5 troopers had been killed by suspected insurgents final Saturday.
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