Worsening Rivalry: Scores Killed As Boko Haram/ISWAP Engage in 14 Hours Gunbattle
By: Zagazola Makama
In what seemed a worsening inter-rivalry clash, a fierce gunbattle that lasted 14 hours ensued on Friday between the Jama'atu Ahlil Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād and the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists factional groups.
Sources familiar with the incident informed that a large numbers of the Boko Haram fighters headed by ABU UMAIMAH or BAKOURA DORO and four other commanders stormed the camps of ISWAP at Tumbum Allura and Kangar in the North East of Abadam in Borno state.
Intelligence sources told Zagazola Makama, a counterinsurgency expert and security analyst in Lake Chad, that the clash which began at about 4pm on Friday at and lasted until 5am on Saturday, left scores of the fighters killed on both sides.
One of the sources said "We have been hearing sounds of heavy gun shooting since yesterday at Kangar axis.
“There have been sounds of heavy gun shootings as early as 5am and it continued nonstop,” he said.
He said that after successful dislodgement of the ISWAP terrorists, DORO later withdrew his militants and headed toward his base, located at Lele karya, within the Nigeria- Niger Border.
