B’Haram captures another Borno town in Nigeria

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