Boko Haram landmines kill 11 Nigerian security personnel
Landmines planted by Boko Haram jihadists experience killed 11 security personnel, including four soldiers found in northeast Nigeria, security sources said Tuesday.
Seven hunters recruited to help the military fight the Islamist insurgents were killed in Tuesday when their vehicle hit a landmine in the village of Kayamla, outside the house Borno State’s capital Maiduguri.
“Seven hunters died in the explosion and nine others are badly injured,” Babakura Kolo, the head of an area anti-jihadist militia, told AFP.
“Their vehicle hit a landmine as they were going after Boko Haram insurgents,” he added.
Another local militiaman confirmed the incident.
Four Nigerian soldiers were killed on Monday when their motor vehicle hit a landmine planted by Boko Haram fighters in Logomani village near to the border with Cameroon, two reliability sources told AFP.
There's been a sharp increase in attacks in northeast Nigeria because the start of the month.
The other day 40 loggers were kidnapped and three killed near the Cameroonian border.
On Holiday Eve, Boko Haram killed 11 people, burnt a good church and seized a priest in a good village near Chibok, where it notoriously kidnapped a lot more than 200 schoolgirls six years back.
Boko Haram and a good splinter group referred to as ISWAP possess killed 36,000 persons found in the northeast and forced roughly two million to flee since 2009, based on the United Nations.
