50 Boko Haram militants killed in Niger

SANAA, March 17 (YPA) – Nigerian Ministry of Defense announced on Tuesday that 50 militias of the “Boko Haram” Takfiri group were killed during a battle that took place on Sunday evening in the Tomur region in the southeast of the country.
According to “Agence France Presse”, the ministry said in a statement that armed the terrorists, riding in about 20 vehicles, attacked a military post in Toummour, in the restive Diffa region.

The statement added that “the interim outcome is the killing of 50 members of Boko Haram and the injury of one soldier.”

The ministry stated in its statement that units of the army “chased the remnants of the attackers until their hideout on the shore of Lake Chad,” noting that “many suspects” had been arrested and “two vehicles and many weapons” had been seized.

The region adjoining Nigeria and Chad has repeatedly suffered attacks since 2015 by Boko Haram, which has bases hidden in the vast Lake Chad area, where the borders of Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria meet.

They had subsided since late last year, but on March 7, Boko Haram fighters, also in about 20 vehicles, raided another army base in Chetima Wango, leaving eight soldiers dead and three missing.

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