Nigerian army special forces repelled late yesterday ultraintegrista attack the Boko Haram sect in the village of Konduga, killing over a hundred attackers in combat, military today reported sources.
Konduga belongs to the state of Borno and is located 35 kilometers from Maiduguri, capital of Borno Salafist group that intends to take, said on its website the Nigerian newspaper Vanguard.
The failed attempt to Boko Haram began at 5:30 and lasted three hours yesterday, said army spokesman, Timothy Athiga from Konduga, who said government troops lost four troops.
The military spokesman also added that the raids are around where the air force combing the dense thickets of the Nigerian Sahel for fugitives groups as soldiers recovered the bodies on the ground.
Atigha explained that in addition to more than a hundred casualties, material losses suffered Boko Haram, weapons and vehicles, EFE reported. The Nigerian army antiaircraft artillery captured three guns and more than 30 multi AK47 rifles and three vans and Buffalo Hilux vehicle with anti-aircraft guns.
Boko Haram controls at this time thirteen municipalities in the states of Borno and Adamawa, in the northeast. In many of these locations, the radical sect declared an Islamic caliphate. Boko Haram began its violent campaign in 2009 and increased its attacks since last January.
The escalating violence has caused 3,000 deaths and 10,000 displaced in the last six months, according to Human Rights Watch.
The president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, who declared a state of emergency in the states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, terrorists killed 8,000 people since 2009.
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