Nigeria: Boko Haram Clash Leave Over 100 People Dead

By Staff Writer

At least 100 civilians and several soldiers have been killed in clashes between Nigeria's military and Islamist militant group Boko Haram, after the army tried to recapture the town of Gwoza in north-eastern Borno State Borno on Monday August 11, a military official said on Tuesday.

The army failed to regaining control of Gwoza which has been under the militia’s control for over a week now, the official said, even though "the sheer number of the insurgents and the fact that they were heavily armed prompted the ground troops to request for reinforcements from the air force".

Dozens of civilians and numerous soldiers, as well as insurgents, were killed, according to the army official.

Boko Haram militia group launched attacks targeting Christians in 2009 and has since killed more than 3 000 people in Nigeria's north in 2014 alone.

Since mid-2013, Boko Haram focused its attacks on government security agents as well as on civilians of both Christian and Muslim faith in their homes, markets, hospitals and schools.

The groups caused a global outrage when they kidnapped over 200 hundred school girls in the northern states of Kano and the recent kidnapping case being that of Cameroonian vice prime minister’s wife in town of Kolofata.