An unspecified number of vigilante operatives were killed at a checkpoint mounted by suspected Boko Haram members along Damaturu/Gashua road, Yobe, on Friday, witnesses and security officials said.
A top vigilante official in Yobe State, who did not want his name mentioned, confirmed that some of his men were killed and their Hilux van seized.
The attack according to sources happened between two villages on the road, Lantewa and Kaliyari, where the insurgents mounted a checkpoint and operated unchallenged for more than two hours.The acting assistant director army public relation unit, sector 2 ‘Operation Lafiya Dole’, Chinonso Oteh, who confirmed the attack said “ground and airforce troops have successfully dislodged the insurgents”.
Mr Modu said the insurgents stopped them and asked them to come down from the car and demanded to see their ID cards.
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