No fewer than 25 people suspected to be members of
Boko Haram sect were killed, Thursday, in a clash with
troops of the 7 Division, Nigerian Army at Ngauramari
villages of Bama Local Government Area of Borno state.

Ngauramari is a small farming community along the
Maiduguri- Bama – Firgi-Gwoza federal highway which
had witnessed series of attacks and killing of over 20
motorists and passengers this week by suspected
terrorists.

Our Correspondent gathered that the incident took place
at about 8am on Thursday when some suspected Boko
Haram members, crossing the road from their camps in
the Sambisa Forest exchanged gunfire with troops, with
the killing of three terrorists. Vanguard gathered those
who fled from the scene of the attack were killed by
military airstrikes.

Sources said, during the encounter with the military, all
roads leading to the area were closed for over three
hours in order to avoid civilian casualties, particularly
motorists and their passengers who were plying the
road as at the time of the airstrikes.

A commercial driver , Ali Wando who came from Gwoza
into Maiduguri told our correspondent, “I saw three
corpses by the roadside at Ngauramari which were
dismembered by the rocket launcher fired at them by
the military when they came on their tricycle.”

“Several other bodies were lying further in the bush but I
did not go to count them because I was afraid, as I
believed some of the insurgents might hiding further in
the bush”.

Another commercial driver who did not want his name
mentioned for security reason said, ” soon after the
military killed the terrorists in Ngauramari, the Nigerian
Airforce fighter jet located some of the suspected
terrorists around the Bama-Firgi-Gwoza river bank,
attempting to cross the river where the fighter jet
attacked and killed them.”

When contacted on phone, the Spokesman of the 7
Division, Nigerian Army, Colonel Mohammed Dole sent a
text message to our Correspondent saying, ” I am
coming up with a statement on the incident very soon,
thanks”, but after waiting for several hours, there was
no response from him before this post.

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"I will continue to show openly and inside me the
total commitment to the Sharia movement that is
sweeping all over Nigeria," Buhari said, quoted in
press reports.

"God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the
total implementation of the Sharia in the country,"
Buhari said.