According to ISWAP in a statement, the soldier was killed when the terrorists attacked a military base in Gujba town in the Gujba Local Government Area of the state on Saturday morning.
The Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, has claimed that its fighters killed a Nigerian soldier in Yobe State.
According to ISWAP in a statement, the soldier was killed when the terrorists attacked a military base in Gujba town in the Gujba Local Government Area of the state on Saturday morning.
Gujba is about 30 kilometres away from Damaturu, the Yobe State capital.
The terror group added that it razed two military operational vehicles.
“An attack targeted a Nigerian army barracks, in the town of Gujba in the Yobe area, using various weapons, killing one member and making the others run away, and then burning two vehicles, and taking a heavy machine gun and a medium one and ammunitions,” it said.
It will be recalled that militants killed 16 soldiers and Nigerians mainly of northern porigin demanded that the town where this took place should be levelled.Southerners on social media are demanding =same treatment for the town of Gujba
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