9 soldiers killed in takfiri attack in northeastern Nigeria

SANAA, Sept. 3 (YPA) – At least Nine Nigerian soldiers were killed during an attack launched takfirist Daesh (ISIS) militants on an army position in the northeastern state of Borno.

“Last night, ISIS militants in West Africa attacked and captured a military post in the town of Magomiri after they killed nine soldiers,” Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported, citing a security source in Nigeria as saying.

The source noted that the army immediately sent reinforcements from Maiduguri, the state capital, and repelled the militants and killed 20 of them.

In a statement on Thursday, the West African takfiri group ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack and another attack near the fishing port of Baja on Lake Chad.

Since 2009, Nigeria has been repeatedly attacked by Boko Haram and then the takfiri group Daesh (ISIS), which has left tens of thousands dead and forced some 3 million people displaced, most of them farmers.

E.M