Residents said the Islamists drove into the town after sacking the base and looted shops, shooting into the air.
Suspected Boko Haram jihadists have overrun a military base and looted a nearby town in northeast Nigeria, security sources and residents said on Tuesday, the latest such attack in the restive region.
Boko Haram’s decade-long campaign of violence has killed 27,000 people and displaced about two million in Nigeria. They were suspected to be from IS-affiliated Boko Haram faction known as the Islamic State West Africa Province .“We don’t know the extent of damage and looting in the base. An assessment is being carried out”.Their presence forced residents to flee into the bush while others shut themselves in their homes.
“They stayed for almost five hours. They broke into the shops and looted food supplies and provisions,” he said.
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