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Takfiri terrorists hit Nigeria army base in Borno, take control

Saturday, 16 January 2021 2:56 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 16 January 2021 2:56 PM ]

Nigerian special forces and Chadian troops participate in an exercise in Mao, Chad. (AP file photo)

Takfiri terrorists have attacked an army base in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Borno, taking the facility under their control.

The ‘Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP),’ an outfit affiliated with the Daesh terrorists, in trucks fitted with machine guns, hit the base in Marte town of the Lake Chad region overnight Friday into Saturday.

Some say the army lost forces but the number of casualties is not known yet.

The group had attempted to take over the base last week but was repelled by the army.

The raid on Friday night is seen as a ‘fight-back’ after recent losses suffered by the terrorists.

Nigerian troops recently overran the second largest camp run by the terrorists in the village of Talala.

11 killed in Boko Haram Christmas Eve attack in Nigeria

Members of the Takfiri Boko Haram terrorist group kill at least 11 people in a Christmas Eve assault on a village in the volatile northeastern Nigerian state of Borno.

Bullets and blood have roamed northeastern Nigeria for years.

Rival communities clash over land. Heavily-armed criminal gangs fill the air with terror. Vigilante groups are involved in reprisal acts of killing.

ISWAP is a faction of the Boko Haram Takfiri terrorist group which split in 2016. Ever since, it has been targeting military formations in Nigeria as well as Chad, Niger and Cameroon.

It maintains camps on islands in Lake Chad, where the territories of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad meet.

At least 36,000 people have been killed and some two million people displaced in more than a decade of Boko Haram violence in Nigeria, according to the United Nations (UN)'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

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