Sunday, December 25, 2011

59 Boko Haram members, 3 soldiers, six others killed in Damaturu attack


Elemboh,com
23 December 2011 

Written by Elombah.com   

A fresh round of explosions and gunfire hit the Nigerian city of Damaturu on Friday as authorities battled suspected members of Islamist sect Boko Haram, a day after unrest killed six people, just as Chief of army staff, Lt. General Azubuike Ihejirika, Friday, said the Joint Task Force set up to quell the Boko Haram menace rocking the Northern part of the country, in the early hours of yesterday, launched a successful operation on the sect’s operational
 stronghold in Damaturu, Yobe state, killing 59 of  the sect members and destroying their armoury.

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