The Boko Haram Islamist militant today launched a dreaded attack on an military base -Giwa Barack- in Maiduguri by water and land in an attempt to free members detained in the barrack.
Islamist sect members, who drove in a convoy to attack the Military barrack in Maiduguri and also reportedly penetrated the barrack through a river channel at the back of the base.
Security sources disclosed that today's attack was severe and that the sect succeeded in freeing some of its members detained at the barrack with several and large explosions used against the Army during the duration of the raid.
The Insurgents succeeded in bombing the Military armory in the barracks causing huge explosions that were heard around the city.
Several soldiers were killed and many injured, but the military authorities would not reveal the number of dead or injured soldiers in the attack.
Sources added that the students of the university of Maiduguri thought the attack were targeted at the university campus, but that the sect mainly used the back of the university to launch attacks against the army barrack.
Two military jets were scrambled to ward off the attacks.
One military source counted 22 corpses lying around in from of the barrack. The dead were members of the sect rounded up and killed by soldiers at an army base as they prepared to flee after the attack.
A group of vigilantes known as “Civilian JTF” later swung into action around the university of Maiduguri capturing some of the escaped prisoners and promptly handing them over to the army.
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