By our reporter/ Barely twenty four hours after troops engaged insurgents in a fierce battle that lasted for more than eight hours, suspected fighters of the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) again attacked Askira Uba Local Government Area of Borno State on Monday evening.
According to sources on the ground, troops are currently battling the insurgents.
The fighters who arrived the town at about 5:30 pm have reportedly set houses ablaze in Dille village in the Local Government Area that was attacked during the weekend.
A source who spoke to a national publication said the insurgents looted many stores, carting away food items, and torched the houses they stole from.
Details of the casualties are yet to be known.
Brig-Gen Dzarma Zirkusu and some soldiers were killed in the weekend attacks but the army retaliated by reportedly killing 50 terrorist commanders.
Spokesman of the Nigerian Army, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement, explained that troops of 115 Task Force Battalion conducted dawn exploitation towards Leho village and environs.
He noted that troops also discovered corpses of the fleeing terrorists and also recovered 2,560 rounds of 7.62mm Special and 29 rounds of 7.62mm NATO ammunition abandoned by the terrorists.
He noted that troops also discovered corpses of the fleeing terrorists and also recovered 2,560 rounds of 7.62mm Special and 29 rounds of 7.62mm NATO ammunition abandoned by the terrorists.
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