Islamic State-aligned jihadists ambushed a Nigerian military convoy, killing 15 soldiers and four militia fighters in the northeastern state of Borno, security sources said Saturday.

The convoy came under heavy attack from Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters near Gudumbali in the Lake Chad region on Thursday, the sources said.

The attack was the latest in a jihadist conflict which has killed 36,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands in northeast Nigeria since it began more than a decade ago.

“We lost 15 soldiers and four civilian JTF (militia) in the terrorists’ ambush in the forest near Gudumbali,” a military officer, who asked not to be identified, told AFP.

He said 13 government fighters, including 10 troops, were wounded in the ambush.

The 10-vehicle convoy was on its way to Gudumbali from the town of Kukawa for a military operation against the insurgents when it came under fire, said another military source, who gave the same toll.

On Saturday, ISWAP issued a statement, claiming responsibility for the ambush, according to the SITE jihadist monitoring agency.

ISWAP which split from the jihadist group Boko Haram in 2016, has become a dominant threat in Nigeria, attacking troops and bases while killing and kidnapping passengers at bogus checkpoints.

Source: https://m.guardian.ng/News/Nigeria-jihadists-ambush-military-convoy-19-troops-dead-security-sources

But the lifeless general promised to lead from the front. Nigeria is now upside down

Let us wait for the army to deny it and give us a report of how dey killed hundreds of Boko fighters

bubu is killing our troops

Buhari is working, by the time his administration is finished, Nigeria will become a no man's land.

Worst president ever.
Sai baba

Glover's Fulanis yamutu yakari

Where Is that vulture griller , he should come and praise his darling daddy as usual. The lifeless kunu guzzler is setting record back to back - in the negative direction.

The army claims to lack the men and personnel to wage the war against terrorists and bandits but they were quick to deploy 4 helicopter gunships and over 300 soldiers at Orlu against the ESN.

Nigeria is a failed nation.

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