Gunmen have killed 15 soldiers and wounded dozens more in an attack Monday night on a military base in Kantuna, northern Nigeria, a local official told Reuters on Tuesday. This is one of the attacks launched by armed gangs from time to time against the security forces of the African country.
Government-designated “terrorist” gangs have wreaked havoc in northwestern Nigeria, launching attacks on towns and villages – without hesitating to even expel students from schools.
A military official from the aforementioned base told Reuters that gunmen on motorcycles attacked with rocket-propelled grenades and other heavy weapons in an operation that lasted more than two hours on Monday night.
Eleven soldiers were killed and 19 others were injured and taken to three different hospitals in Cantona. Four other soldiers later succumbed to their injuries, according to the same official.
“These are not common criminals,” he said. “They snatched a lot of weapons from our base,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
A soldier from the Cantona base also said three vehicles had been destroyed and weapons had been stolen.
The Nigerian army is fighting on two fronts simultaneously: in the northeast it is trying to suppress an Islamist insurgency, while in the northwest it is clashing with armed gangs.
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