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Borno Barracks Raid By Gun Men by Nobody: 7:03pm On Dec 20, 2013
Borno barracks raid by gun men on weekday, spraying shot on the troops within before torching the compound, the military and residents told fetoprotein.

The military has reportedly deployed fighter jets and army in pursuit of the gunmen, plausible to be Boko Haram members, United Nations agency have killed thousands within the region throughout a four-year revolt.

“There was associate attack on the military barracks in (the town) of Bama this morning,” aforesaid Mohammed Dole, army spokesperson in Borno State.

He declined to treat details provided by many Bama residents United Nations agency aforesaid dozens, or maybe even a whole lot, of insurgents swarmed the barracks during a convoy of 4X4 trucks, armed with assault rifles, explosives and rocket-propelled-grenades.

“It started at around 3 within the morning with vast explosions and also the cracking of shot,” aforesaid Bama resident Abdullahi Idris. “Later we tend to saw plumes of smoke and hearth from the barracks.”

Bama has become a flashpoint within the insurgence and also the scene of many daring Muhammedan attacks. one in every of the Muhammedan rebels’ largest-ever strikes targeted the military in Bama in June.

According to Idris and different residents, military jets flew over the city when the attack.

The nearest air force base is in Borno’s capital metropolis, roughly seventy kilometres (44 miles) from Bama.

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