Boko Haram
ABUJA, Dec 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Boko Haram has released a video showing the execution of two Nigerian soldiers and a policeman, posted online by the Daesh group propaganda agency, Amaq.
The video, dated Sunday, was made by a branch of Boko Haram that has sworn allegiance to Daesh known as the Islamic State Group in West Africa.
Its release came days after the terrorists announced the kidnapping of 14 people including two Red Cross workers and, according to them, six members of the security forces.
It shows three men in plain clothes kneeling in a field, introducing themselves as members of the Nigerian security forces before masked men in fatigues open fire on them shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest).
One of the three victims introduced himself as a police sergeant, saying the terrorists had “captured” him when he was on his way to Maiduguri.
The group was taken on the highway outside Maiduguri at a fake security checkpoint set up by the militants disguised as Nigerian soldiers.
ISWAP, which claimed responsibility for the kidnapping, focuses on military targets, while Boko Haram mainly attacks civilians.
The decade-long insurgency in Nigeria has claimed some 35,000 lives and displaced about two million from their homes in the northeast of the West African country. — NNN-AGENCIES
