Security officials say five Nigerian soldiers were killed by Islamic State-backed Boko Haram fighters during last Friday’s assault on the base at Mararrabar Kimba, but search and rescue teams are still looking for around 30 missing soldiers. Nigeria
Gunmen from the Islamic State West Africa Province , the IS-linked faction of Boko Haram, attacked the base in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state on Friday.
“Search and rescue teams are still looking for around 30 more soldiers who have gone missing since the attack,” the officer added. The fighters, reportedly driving over a dozen pickup trucks with heavy machine guns welded onto the back, were accompanied by three armoured personnel carriers and flanked by a fleet of gunmen firing from motorbikes.“There are high hopes the missing soldiers will be found — or will find their way back,” he added. “We are not thinking of the worst scenario.”The decade-long jihadist conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and forced millions from their homes.
In recent weeks, coalition forces involving Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon have been pounding insurgent hideouts in the Lake Chad areas with airstrikes, as well as launching ground assaults.
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