Boko Haram Kills Nigerian Troops
Four soldiers have reportedly been killed by Boko Haram Jihadist in an ambush in northeast Nigeria, where they torched an army base a day after killing seven civilians, a soldier and witnesses said.
According to a soldier that pleaded anonymity he said;
“Our men came under attack near Gubdori village yesterday,” the soldier told AFP, asking not to be named.
“We lost four men in the ambush. Five were injured and four are still missing.”
The assailants came from the Boko Haram faction headed by Abu Musab Al-Barnawi, son of the sect’s founder Mohammed Yusuf, the soldier added, in an account confirmed by two vigilantes.