Three soldiers were killed when Boko Haram jihadists raided a military base in northeast Nigeria, security sources said on Saturday. The attack happened at the Forward Operation Base in Ngwom village, some 14 kilometres (nearly nine miles) north of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri. “Boko Haram infiltrated our base in Ngwom yesterday (Friday) at around 6:50 pm (1750 GMT) in which we lost three soldiers,” a military officer in Maiduguri told AFP. A second military source said the Islamist militants left with two army vehicles and “demobilised” a mine-resistant armoured vehicle. More than 27,000 people have been killed in northeast Nigeria and some 1.8 million others remain homeless.

Source: Punch February 09, 2019 12:22 UTC