ISWAP, B’haram clash claims more terrorists in Borno

TIslamic State West Africa Province ( ISWAP) has reportedly killed about 50 Boko Haram terrorists in the Chillaria axis of Sambisa Forest in Borno State.

The terrorists were eliminated on November 21, 2022, in a sustained clash between the two groups in the Chillaria hideouts.

A counter- insurgency expert in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, disclosed in Maiduguri, yesterday: “ISWAP terrorists ambushed a convoy of Boko Haram fighters. This led to a 40minute fierce gun battle about 4.30p. m.”

According to him, ISWAP took strategic positions to rout Boko Haram fighters, killing an unspecified number of them.

A military source in Maiduguri also disclosed that a Hilux truck, motorcycles and other weapons were seized from Boko Haram. Makama had predicted that the worsening rivalry between the jihadist groups might lead to irreversible self- destruction.

“The revolting ISWAP had vowed to battle more with members of its former main body than troops of Operation Hadin Kai ( OPHK),” he noted.