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Boko Haram jihadists have carried out numerous attacks on military bases in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno, invading three of them and stealing weapons, sources said on Monday. Security.
The Boko Haram faction, linked to the Islamic State, stormed four bases from Friday to Sunday in the latest round of attacks on the army, military sources said. militias.
There were no immediate details about the victims.
During the latest incident Sunday, the insurgents tried in vain to seize a base in the city of Dikwa following a dawn attack.
"The terrorists attacked the troops at Dikwa around 4:00 am (03:00 GMT) but the attack was pushed back without casualties on our side," a military officer who did not want to be identified told AFP. .
The fighters arrived in 13 trucks equipped with heavy machine guns, said a second officer, who made a similar story.
Dikwa, located 90 kilometers from Maiduguri, the state capital, is home to more than 70,000 displaced people living in several camps where they rely on food and humanitarian aid provided by humanitarian organizations.
Saturday afternoon, jihadists broke into a base in the city of Marte, 40 kilometers away, repelling their troops after a prolonged firefight, said the two military sources.
The militants ransacked the base, carrying weapons abandoned by fleeing soldiers and set them on fire. The soldiers withdrew to Dikwa.
As they retreated to Lake Chad, Islamist fighters ransacked another base in the village of Kirenowa, 30 kilometers from Marte.
Evacuated soldiers
"The soldiers in Kirenowa were evacuated to Dikwa after the terrorist attack," said the first officer.
Jihadists reportedly launched attacks from their enclave of Lake Chad where the Nigerian army intensified its aerial attacks on the ISWAP camps.
Troops from a base in Dalwa village, 16 kilometers from Maiduguri, were dislodged after a six-hour battle with ISWAP fighters that continued on Sunday, sources said. military and an anti-jihadist militia.
The fighting forced the inhabitants of Marte to flee to Maiduguri, where they arrived by trucks on Sunday, according to the inhabitants of the city.
However, troops returned to the town late Sunday with reinforcements from Maiduguri, sources said.
Since last July, ISWAP has targeted dozens of military bases during attacks that have cost the lives of many soldiers.
The Boko Haram insurgency, which has lasted for a decade, killed 27,000 people and displaced about two million people in Nigeria.
The violence spread to neighboring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, pushing a regional military coalition to defeat the Islamist group.
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