Nigeria’s army said Friday it had killed 74 suspected Boko Haram fighters
in a raid on insurgent camps in restive Borno state, the latest
operation in the military’s bid to crush a four-year Islamist uprising.
“The
operations, which involved ground and aerial assault…led to the
destruction of the identified terrorists camps, killing 74 suspected
militants,” area army spokesman Mohammed Dole said of the Thursday raid
in Borno in the northeast, Boko Haram’s stronghold.
The strike
targeted two villages in the Mainok local government area, not far from
Borno’s capital of Maiduguri, where Boko Haram was founded more than a
decade ago.
