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At least 17 Nigerian soldiers were killed in a fresh Boko Haram attack on a military base in the country’s northeast, military sources said Thursday, the third assault on three different bases in less than a month.

On Wednesday evening, heavily armed jihadists riding in trucks stormed and looted weapons and vehicles from a military base in Garunda village in Borno State, the epicentre of the Islamist insurgency that has been raging for nine years.

The attack is the latest of a series of bloody Boko Haram assaults on military bases in Nigeria, underscoring the continued threat the Islamists pose to the region and putting the spotlight on the Nigerian government’s claim that Boko Haram is “decimated”.

“Our troops came under attack from Boko Haram terrorists in Garunda last night,” a military officer said.
“Unfortunately we lost 17 troops, 14 others were injured while an unspecified number is still uned for,” said the military source, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorised to speak on the incident.
The source added that the militants looted weapons and vehicles before fleeing.

In the past month, Boko Haram jihadists have launched two other major assaults on military bases in the remote northeast region.

On July 14, jihadists suspected to be loyal to Abu Mus’ab Al-Barnawi, who is d with the Islamic State group, attacked a base in Jilli village, in neighbouring Yobe state.

Dozens of troops were killed, wounded or missing, according to several security sources.

The army conceded the base was attacked but did not give a death toll, saying that the “troops reorganised and successfully repelled the attack and normalcy has since returned to the area”.

On July 26, the Islamists stormed a base on the outskirts of Maiduguri, the state capital of Borno state.
The base attacked yesterday in Garunda village of Borno state had just been set up for troops from the 81 brigade who had been stationed in Jilli village and forced to move after the July 14 assault.

“The truth of the matter is that the troops in Jilli were relocated to Garunda where a new base was established,” said the second military source, who gave a similar death toll.

“Troops were just setting up and the excavator operator was working to fortify the base with trenches against attack from the terrorists when the attack happened,” said the officer.

The Nigerian army did not respond to to requests for comment.

Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Thursday confirmed in a statement that a staff member, an excavator operator attached to the military, “was killed by Boko Haram yesterday in Damasak, Borno state”.

Boko Haram no longer controls swathes of territory in northeast Nigeria as it did at the height of its insurgency in 2014, yet the Islamist militants still pose a threat to the impoverished region.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has insisted that the Islamists are a spent force as he gears up for elections next year.

In an interview with Nigerian press published on Thursday, Buhari’s information minister Lai Mohammed said “we promised to fight insecurity…despite what anybody says, we have decimated Boko Haram”.
Six months away from presidential polls, Buhari is under pressure to defend his track record as he battles insecurity across Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/08/breaking-boko-haram-militants-kill-17-nigerian-soldiers/

They will all be cleared

Pdp hand is involved

Late NSA Of Bless memories said it

The rate at which young men die in the battle field is alarming, I just pray these young men are not used as pawns in the political game of chess.

but booharry keep telling us boko haram has been defeated.

Yeye yeye.

Herdsmen and Boko Haram are all creatures of Pdp

https://nairaland.unblockandhide.com/4667371/boko-haram-insurgents-attack-military

Nawaooo!!

"I will fight BokoHaram, i will lead from the front..."

Says an old idiot!!

herdsmen and Boko Haram are working for saraki
i hope am communicating

sarrki:
Herdsmen and Boko Haram are all creatures of Pdp

sarrki:
They will all be cleared

Pdp hand is involved

When the brain is filled with hate fanaticism becomes a curse

Should I cry or feel sad?

Python were is thy dance

Rip to our gallant men

WHY ONLY 17. Boko haram don cut my ticket, I played them to kill over 90.5 yeye soldiers :DWHY ONLY 17. Boko haram don cut my ticket, I played them to kill over 90.5 yeye soldiers

and boko boys keep reincarnates. wasn't same people that were defeated technically by Apshit gonment??

@ op please boko Haram are terrorist not militant, stop signifying a terrorist group created my Buhari.

People's devilish party at work

lol
RIP to the soldiers. I thought lai said they av been defeated technically.

RIP to the deas

Buhari will end Bokoharam in less than 6 months.
RIP to the departed soul.
How I wish all this insurgence and problem caused by this mumu can only be rotating around Zombies till..
But funny we're all in this poo.
Make Una vote am again.

the earlier we accept terrorism cannot be ended it can only be controlled ,even the almighty USA tried and failed ..even if this current government wipe out this current breed another set would rise up sooner or later because they would conceive injustice ...The Nigerian government should save us the lies of ending it ..just control it to the minimum

sarrki:
They will all be cleared
Pdp hand is involved

Your stupidity is like zee world!.

To zombies : I'm sure it was Saraki that sent Boko Haram to kill this people in order to discredit PMB



Don't worry, your day will come and we would be too sentimental to even type RIP


Karma has no menu, it serves you what you deserve

And Boooohari is busy chasing Saraki.


Useless terrorist!

This shit is real, hound men been wasted daily and the government says nothing...

Just last week a young man I grew up knowing, my neighbor who was like a brother to me... barely a year after ing the army was killed and the news reported to his parent, he's just 35... its so sad...

this government is wicked

Falling Heros...God have mercy

taught they said bokoharam is defeated already... . When I was planning to the Nigeria army..