Boko Haram is battling it out with ISIS to seize the award for most vicious evil representation of Islam on Earth. Fortunately this latest attack was repelled with the aid of Nigerian fighter jets.
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Earlier, explosions and gunfire could be heard after the fighters overwhelmed a checkpoint at the edge of the city, which has been bombed before but has never had the insurgents attempt to take it over.
Witness Abdul Hassan said soldiers had run away after the checkpoint was overwhelmed. The militants then burned down a police station on the outskirts of town, he said.
“I crossed a river and ran into the hills,” he said. “I’m still there and I can hear the fighting.”
Others were staying indoors. Witness Hussaina Maji said she was unable to leave her house for fear of being caught in crossfire.
Boko Haram’s struggle for an Islamic state has become the gravest security threat to Africa’s biggest economy and top oil producer, killing thousands, kidnapping hundreds and increasingly threatening neighbors Cameroon, Chad and Niger – all of which are now also battling the insurgents.
Previously, a young woman who escaped a Boko Haram camp recounted the horrors she faced, and what kidnapped girls still face, despite Michelle’s hashtag campaigns.