The Boko Haram sect has attacked another
town, Askira in Borno State, Nigeria, some fleeing residents of the town told
journalists in Maiduguri on Tuesday.
According to one of the residents of the
town, Yusuf Mohammed, who fled to Maiduguri, the insurgents attacked
the town in a convoy of Toyota Hilux vehicles and motorcycles at about
3.35 pm on Monday.
He said the terrorists, who were armed
with Improvised Explosive Devices and petrol-bombs, torched several
public buildings, including a secondary school, the Divisional Police
Station and telecom masts.
Meanwhile, about 143 Boko Haram fighters were reportedly killed in an attack on a military camp in Cameroon on Monday.
The Cameroonian Minister of
Communications, Issa Bakary, who said this in a statement on Monday,
added that it was the heaviest loss sustained by the Boko Haram sect in
the country. ...Punch
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