Nigeria: Residents Flee Marwa's Hometown Over Fresh Boko Haram Attack

6 February 2019

Unknown number of terrorists and two soldiers sustained injuries when troops of Operation Lafiya Dole clashed with Boko Haram terrorists at a military base in Kannama, Yobe State, on Monday. Kannama is the headquarters of Yunusari Council, 215 kilometres north of Damaturu, the state capital.

The terrorists struck about 5.30pm and started shooting sporadically before soldiers engaged them with superior firepower. Spokesman of the Nigerian Army, Brig-Gen. Sani Usman, in a statement released Tuesday in Damaturu, said the coordinated air support from Air Component of Operation Lafiya Dole repelled the terrorists towards the border area with Niger.

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