NIGERIAN SOLDIERS KILLED
Boko Haram rears head to attack base
The Boko Haram gunmen are believed to have regrouped after the military chased them out of the group’s Sambisa Forest stronghold
Kano, Nigeria — At least five Nigerian soldiers were killed in a surprise attack by Boko Haram on a military base in the northeast of the country, according to senior officers on Monday. A group of Boko Haram fighters launched an attack on the army facility in the town of Buni Yadi, in Yobe State, at dusk on Saturday, leading to an "intense battle", an officer said. "We lost five soldiers in the attack, including a captain who was recently deployed to Buni Yadi," he said, asking not to be identified as he was not authorised to speak to the media. "We are still trying to have a sense of the casualties on the part of the terrorists as their bodies are scattered in the bush." The Boko Haram gunmen are believed to have regrouped after the military chased them out of the group’s Sambisa Forest stronghold in the neighbouring state of Borno in December. Nigeria’s military and government maintain the group is a spent force because sustained pressure has driven it out of swathes of captured ...
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