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Six Nigerian soldiers killed in Boko Haram attack |
2019-12-25 |
[GUARDIAN.NG] Jihadists armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades killed six soldiers in an ambush in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... on Sunday, security sources said.Fighters from the Islamic State ![]() Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... West Africa Province (ISWAP) group attacked a patrol outside Tungushe, a village 22 kilometres (13 miles) from the Borno State capital Maiduguri, they said Monday. "Two patrol vans came under fire from the murderous Moslems and the leading vehicle was hit by an RPG, killing six soldiers on board," a security source said Monday. Three jihadists were killed in a battle with soldiers following the ambush, a second security source said. The Tungushe area has been repeatedly targeted by ISWAP and its rival Boko Haram ![]() faction. The In October a soldier and three non-combatants were killed when ISWAP Death Eaters attacked troops in Tungushe. The decade-long jihadist insurgency in northeast Nigeria has killed 35,000 people and displaced around two million people. The conflict has spilled into neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , prompting a regional military coalition to fight the jihadist groups. |
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