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11 Boko Haram militants killed by troops in an ambush

The sect has intensified its attacks since the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari as the Nigeria's leader.

 

No fewer than eleven Boko Haram terrorists have been killed in Borno state on Monday, July 27, in a clash with local vigilantes and the Nigerian army.

Three vigilantes were said to have also lost their lives in the clash.

According to the Nigerian military spokesman, Major General Chris Olukolade, a new regional force tasked with fighting the jihadists should go into action very soon, though he did not specify when for tactical reasons.

“On Monday afternoon around 2:00 pm (1300 GMT), Boko Haram gunmen on motorcycles attacked our village,” Markus Yohana, a local militia member fighting the Islamists in Dille in Borno State, said.

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“They killed three vigilantes and seized a car,” he said, adding that soldiers ambushed the raiders as they tried to flee, killing 11.

Another local, Bitrus Damina, confirmed the account.

“Soldiers went after them and killed 11 of them in the bush,” Damina said.

The sect has intensified its attacks since the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari as the Nigeria's leader.

The 8,700-strong Multi-National Joint Task Force, which will replace the regional offensive, is expected to be more efficient than the current alliance when it takes over the battle against a six-year insurgency that has killed some 15,000 people.

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“Any moment‎ from now, the operations or the Task Force will be manifest. In other words, we may not tell you (when it will commence), you will just see it,” Nigeria’s military spokesman Olukolade told AFP.

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