Boko Haram: Troops repel ISWAP Attack on Repented Terrorists’ Camp in Borno

Boko Haram: Troops repel ISWAP Attack on Repented Terrorists’ Camp in Borno

Troops of the Nigerian military have thwarted the mission of ISWAP terrorists to attack a camp of repentant Boko Haram members in Damboa local government area of Borno state in North-east Nigeria.

The troops repelled the insurgents who stormed the Borno town, in a convoy of gun trucks on Saturday. 

This is coming a day after Boko Haram terrorists eliminated ISWAP fighters in the Gwoza axis.

Credible sources confirmed to NEWSng  that fighters of the dreaded Islamic State of West Africa Province, ISWAP, on Saturday evening, invaded Damboa town.

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Their plan, according to a seasoned intelligence source, is to launch an attack on the civilian camp of repentant Boko Haram members.

“The camp is where hundreds of repentant Boko Haram members have been staying since they renounced terrorism,” he said.

However, he added that troops who were swiftly deployed after a distress call engaged the ISWAP fighters.

“Though the terrorists were repelled, and their mission thwarted after a brutal gunfire, I cannot give the actual number of casualties they could have suffered,” one of the officers said.

In a related development, NEWSng  gathered that a group of terrorists affiliated to Boko Haram on Friday eliminated 24 ISWAP fighters, at Mandra and Gaba Mountains in the Gwoza axis.

Gwoza was the former terrorists caliphate where hundreds of them were said to have hibernated until the military takes over the area in 2017

Report said the ISWAP fighters were killed when the Boko Haram terrorists, under the control of one Commander Aliyu Ngulde, exchanged fire with the ISWAP fighters, led by one Abou Aseeya, at the mountainous area.

Boko Haram: Troops repel ISWAP Attack on Repented Terrorists’ Camp in Borno