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MAIDUGURI - Guerrillas Boko Haram launched their biggest offensive into the northeastern city of Maiduguri, within 18 months on Wednesday (7/6/2017) night. The attack comes ahead of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo's visit to a war refugee sheltering there.
Police said that 14 people were killed before government troops damped the attack as quoted by Reuters on Thursday (08/06/2017).
Maiduguri was the center of a battle for eight years against Boko Haram, who tried to create an Islamic caliphate in northeastern Nigeria.
Borno State police commissioner, where Maiduguri is the capital, Damian Chukwu said militants Boko Haram attacked the suburbs with anti-aircraft guns and several suicide bombers.
"A total of 13 people were killed in several explosions with 24 people wounded while one person was killed in the attack," he told reporters.
Reuters aid workers and witnesses reported heavy explosions and gunfire at least for 45 minutes in the southeast and southwestern suburbs of the city. Thousands of civilians escaped from the fighting, according to Reuters witnesses.
The police commissioner said several buildings were burned, but the military drove the fighters after an hour.
The attack came six months after Buhari said that Boko Haram was "technically" defeated by a military campaign. The Nigerian military campaign has pushed many rebels deep into Sambisa's remote forest, near the border with Cameroon.
Osinbajo continued his visit to Maiduguri, which was planned before the attack, launched a food aid initiative for people displaced by the insurgency. This was said by his spokesman Laolu Akande.
President Muhammadu Buhari handed over power to Osinbajo after going to England for medical leave on May 7.
More than 20,000 people were killed in the Boko Haram campaign to form a khilafah in the valley of Lake Chad. Another 2.7 million have been displaced, creating one of the world's largest humanitarian emergencies.
Despite the military success in big cities, most of Borno remains banned, hampering efforts to provide food aid to nearly 1.5 million people believed to be on the brink of starvation.
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MAIDUGURI - Guerrillas Boko Haram launched their biggest offensive into the northeastern city of Maiduguri, within 18 months on Wednesday (7/6/2017) night. The attack comes ahead of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo's visit to a war refugee sheltering there.
Police said that 14 people were killed before government troops damped the attack as quoted by Reuters on Thursday (08/06/2017).
Maiduguri was the center of a battle for eight years against Boko Haram, who tried to create an Islamic caliphate in northeastern Nigeria.
Borno State police commissioner, where Maiduguri is the capital, Damian Chukwu said militants Boko Haram attacked the suburbs with anti-aircraft guns and several suicide bombers.
"A total of 13 people were killed in several explosions with 24 people wounded while one person was killed in the attack," he told reporters.
Reuters aid workers and witnesses reported heavy explosions and gunfire at least for 45 minutes in the southeast and southwestern suburbs of the city. Thousands of civilians escaped from the fighting, according to Reuters witnesses.
The police commissioner said several buildings were burned, but the military drove the fighters after an hour.
The attack came six months after Buhari said that Boko Haram was "technically" defeated by a military campaign. The Nigerian military campaign has pushed many rebels deep into Sambisa's remote forest, near the border with Cameroon.
Osinbajo continued his visit to Maiduguri, which was planned before the attack, launched a food aid initiative for people displaced by the insurgency. This was said by his spokesman Laolu Akande.
President Muhammadu Buhari handed over power to Osinbajo after going to England for medical leave on May 7.
More than 20,000 people were killed in the Boko Haram campaign to form a khilafah in the valley of Lake Chad. Another 2.7 million have been displaced, creating one of the world's largest humanitarian emergencies.
Despite the military success in big cities, most of Borno remains banned, hampering efforts to provide food aid to nearly 1.5 million people believed to be on the brink of starvation.
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