SUSPECTED Boko Haram insurgents about midnight of Saturday, March 23, attacked a military base in Gujba town, Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State, killing a soldier.
Yobe State Police Command’s spokesman, DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, who confirmed the attack to The PUNCH on Sunday, said a military patrol vehicle was also torched by the suspected terrorists.
“The only thing I can confirm to you now is the attack. A soldier was killed, and troops and CJTF engaged the suspected terrorists,” he said.
Reliable local sources told this newspaper that the suspected insurgents, who stormed the town by 12 midnight, shooting indiscriminately and subsequently attacking the military base, were later repelled by troops who chased them out to the surrounding bush.
A resident of Gujba, Modu Bahna, while narrating his ordeal, said, “They (suspected terrorists) stormed the town some minutes after midnight, shooting sporadically and majority of us took to our heels into the surrounding bushes for our dear lives.”
“The attackers did not kill any civilian or loot food or other essential commodities stores,” another source, Dala Bukar, said, adding, “They only attacked the two patrol vehicles in the military base where a soldier was killed.”
This recent killing is coming after 15 soldiers were killed during a communal clash in Delta State.
The personnel consist of two Majors, one Captain, and 12 soldiers.
They were said to have met their deaths while responding to a distress call during a clash between Okuama and Okoloba communities in the state.
