{"id":121449,"date":"2021-05-05T14:17:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T06:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121449"},"modified":"2021-05-05T14:17:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T06:17:37","slug":"35-killed-in-jihadist-attacks-in-nigeria-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121449","title":{"rendered":"35 killed in jihadist attacks in Nigeria: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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KANO (Nigeria), May 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Insurgents have killed 35 people, including five troops and 15 militiamen, in two attacks in Nigeria\u2019s troubled northern Borno state, sources said Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daesh-aligned militants have intensified attacks on army camps in recent weeks as part of a decade-long insurgency that has killed 36,000 people and forced more than two million to flee their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fighters from Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) came in several trucks fitted with machine guns and stormed Ajiri town late on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They attacked a military base, leading to intense fighting in which five soldiers and 15 anti-jihadist militia were killed, two military sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISWAP had raided the same base on Sunday, killing the base commander along with six civilians and carting away weapons, military sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Troops returned to the base on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe lost five troops and 15 Civilian JTF (militia) in the fight,\u201d a military officer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The source said 10 civilians were killed in the crossfire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe terrorists came in large numbers around 8:45 pm (1945 GMT) and engaged troops in a fight which lasted hours,\u201d added the officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Residents fled to nearby Mafa to escape the fighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe casualty toll stands at 30,\u201d said a second military source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The militants seized five trucks in the attack, including one fitted with machine guns, the second source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Separately on Tuesday, five civilians were killed and seven others injured when their vehicle hit a landmine outside the town of Rann, near the border with Cameroon, residents said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vehicle was coming from the town of Gamboru when it hit the landmine at Tumshe village, 10 kilometres from Rann, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe vehicle exploded. Five people died and seven were critically injured,\u201d Rann resident Walid Abdallah said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abdallah\u2019s account was supported by Ibrahim Umar from Gamboru.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was obviously planted by the terrorists to avenge their loss on Saturday,\u201d said Umar, referring to ISWAP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday, ISWAP fighters were beaten back when they attacked a base in Rann, prompting artillery fire from troops which hit two militants\u2019 trucks while the remaining fled, military sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ISWAP split from mainstream Boko Haram in 2016 and became a dominant group in the region, launching attacks on military bases and ambushing troops while abducting travellers at bogus checkpoints. Since 2019, the army has mostly withdrawn from villages and smaller bases into so-called \u201csuper camps\u201d, fortified garrisons meant to give better protection against attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critics say the strategy has left jihadists with freedom to roam rural areas unchallenged and made the highways vulnerable to kidnappings and assaults. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KANO (Nigeria), May 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Insurgents have killed 35 people, including five troops and 15 militiamen, in two attacks in Nigeria\u2019s troubled northern Borno state, sources said Tuesday. Daesh-aligned militants have intensified attacks on army camps in recent weeks as part of a decade-long insurgency that has killed 36,000 people and forced more than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":121450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}