Kano - Not less than 5 soldiers were killed in a surprise weekend attack by Boko Haram Islamists on a military base in northeast Nigeria, senior officers told afp on today.
A group of Boko Haram fighters launched an attack on the military facility in the city of Buni Yadi at sundown on saturday, resulting in an "intense battle", one officer said on condition of obscurity.
"We lost 5 soldiers in the attack, as well as a captain who was recently deployed to Buni Yadi," he said, asking not to be identified as he wasn't authorised to talk to the media.
"We are still making an attempt to have a sense of the casualties on the part of the terrorists as their bodies are scattered in the bush."
The Boko Haram gunmen are believed to have regrouped when Nigeria's military chased them out of the group's Sambisa Forest fortress in the neighbouring state of Borno last month.
Nigeria's military and government maintains the islamic State cluster affiliate is a spent force because of sustained pressure that has driven them out of swathes of captured territory.
A group of Boko Haram fighters launched an attack on the military facility in the city of Buni Yadi at sundown on saturday, resulting in an "intense battle", one officer said on condition of obscurity.
"We lost 5 soldiers in the attack, as well as a captain who was recently deployed to Buni Yadi," he said, asking not to be identified as he wasn't authorised to talk to the media.
"We are still making an attempt to have a sense of the casualties on the part of the terrorists as their bodies are scattered in the bush."
The Boko Haram gunmen are believed to have regrouped when Nigeria's military chased them out of the group's Sambisa Forest fortress in the neighbouring state of Borno last month.
Nigeria's military and government maintains the islamic State cluster affiliate is a spent force because of sustained pressure that has driven them out of swathes of captured territory.
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