BEVERLY HILLS, CA, December 20, (THEWILL) -
An early morning attack by Boko Haram
insurgents to overrun the 202 Tank Battalion in
Bama, 78 kilometres southeast of Maiduguri,
Borno State, on Friday, has backfired. The
insurgents, who stormed the barrack with
Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and petrol-
bombs, through the Cameroonian border road of
Gulumba, in an operation lasting several minutes,
lost many of their gunmen to an ambush by the
military . Bama residents disclosed that the
superior fire power from a military fighter jet
deployed to dislodge the insurgents sent the
terrorists scampering for cover, losing several
gunmen in the bombardment that also claimed
the lives of three civilians. A transporter from
Maiduguri, Garba Jibrin, who had to make a
detour at Konduga, said he saw troops and their
patrol vehicles driving towards the barracks in the
morning. 'I was already at Konduga town, when a
Good Samaritan told me that the Maiduguri-Bama
road is not safe to travel. When I asked further,
he told me that, Boko Haram gunmen came to
attack the Army Barrack in Bama, but they were
ambushed and killed by the soldiers in an aerial
bombardment of the insurgents. 'Based on what I
was told about the Friday dawn barrack attacks;
the insurgents arrived the area on Thursday
afternoon and settled to strategise on Gulumba
road. One of the residents of Bama, however went
and informed the military about the presence of
suspected insurgents on the road. This made the
soldiers to ambush the insurgents, before they
could attack the barrack as they had done in
Maiduguri on December 2 when they destroyed
five fighter jets and helicopters at the Nigerian Air
Force (NAF) base," he said. The acting spokesman
of 7 Division of Nigerian Army, Capt. Aliyu Danja,
who confirmed the incident on Friday, said an
attempted attack on a barrack in Bama by
suspected Boko Haram terror suspects was
repelled and crushed. "The soldiers were able to
kill several members of the Islamist sect," he said,
adding that several arms and vehicles allegedly
used in the attacks were also destroyed, in the
aerial bombardments of insurgents. However, he
did not give casualty figures.

SOURCE:
www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvnews/132106/1/bama-boko-haram-suffers-several-casualties-in-army.html

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