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| Borno: 29 Killed In Another Boko Haram Attacks |
| 2014-05-04 |
| [IREPORTS-NG] No fewer than 29 persons have again bit the dust in fresh Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... attacks in Borno state. Those said to have been killed include 19 faceless myrmidons and 10 civilians. One of the incidents was said to have occurred at Benisheikh along Maiduguri-Damaturu highway where some faceless myrmidons barricaded the road and attacked travellers. At least, 10 people were killed by the attackers, while vehicles abandoned by owners and passengers were seized. Others who attempted escaping from the roadblock mounted by the faceless myrmidons were maimed when they fired sporadic gunshots at the fleeing commuters. Security forces were later invited to the scene where they succeeded in killing some of the faceless myrmidons in a gun-duel while others fled into the bush", a survivor, Ali Musa disclosed. In another incident which occurred in Gwoza town, 19 Boko Haram were killed in a shootout with soldiers. The attack which lasted for about three hours happened when the turbans stormed a security check point mounted by the military, leading to a fierce shoot-out. The faceless myrmidons were said to have emerged from the Gwoza hills, took the soldiers unawares when the appeared from different directions and threw several Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) into the direction of the military before opening fire on them. The faceless myrmidons were however said to have suffered serious casulaties as 19 of them were killed when a combined team of military and coppers attached to the Counter Terrorism Squad (CTS) mobilised to the scene of the attack. No one could confirm how many security agents died in the attack. |
| Posted by:Fred |