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Security sources has said on Tuesday that landmines planted by Boko Haram jihadists has killed 11 security personnel, including four soldiers in northeast Nigeria.
Seven hunters recruited to assist in the military fight the Islamist insurgents were killed on Tuesday after their vehicle hit a landmine in the village of Kayamla, outside Borno State’s capital Maiduguri.
“Seven hunters died in the explosion and nine others are badly injured,” Babakura Kolo, the head of a local anti-jihadist militia, told AFP.
“Their vehicle hit a landmine as they were pursuing Boko Haram insurgents,” he added.
Another local militiaman confirmed the incident.
Also, security sources told AFP that four Nigerian soldiers were killed on Monday when their vehicle hit a landmine planted by Boko Haram fighters in Logomani village near the border with Cameroon.
There has been a sharp rise in attacks in northeast Nigeria since the start of the month.
Last week 40 loggers were kidnapped and three killed near the Cameroonian border.
On Christmas Eve, Boko Haram killed 11 people, burnt a church and seized a priest in a village near Chibok, where it notoriously kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls six years ago.
Boko Haram and a splinter group known as ISWAP have killed 36,000 people in the northeast and forced roughly two million to flee since 2009, according to the United Nations.
According to government papers released on Wednesday, Britain under prime minister John Major feared the prospect of getting drawn into another US-led war with Iraq and was considering abandoning Kurdish […]
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