Boko Haram repelled ISWAP attack, killed 18, lost 3 in Borno
By: Zagazola Makama
The deadly rivalries clash between the Islamic State of West African Province(ISWAP), and the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, also known as Boko Haram in the North East of Borno has led to the killing 18 ISWAP fighters.
Zagazola understand that the ISWAP on five guntrucks and Motorcycles, on June 30, attacked Boko Haram acclaimed Chaliphate in Gazuwa village, formerly known as Gabchari, Mantari and Mallum Masari, located about 9 kilometres to Bama Local Government Area of Borno.
An Intelligence Officer, told Zagazola Makama, a Counter Insurgency and Security Analysts in the Lake Chad that the attack triggered fierce gunbattle between the terror groups which lasted for morethan three hours.
The sources said that the Boko Haram faction later overpowered the ISWAP, killed 18 of them and recovered three of their trucks while other terrorists on two trucks and motorcycles took to their heels.
He said that three Boko Haram terrorists were also killed while many others were injured in the coordinated attack.
The intensified bloodbath in the two terror camps and the Nigerian Military's onslought has resulted in massive displacement of the fighters and their families with many of them relocating to a more safer hideouts in the axis of Kala Balge in the South of Borno state.
