AS violence continues in Borno State, gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram attacked the Damboa 33 Armoured Brigade, a divisional police station and other military posts with Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and grenades, Friday, killing nine soldiers, five policemen (including field commanders of affected posts) among others.
Damboa is at the fringe of Sambisa Forest, and 87 kilometres south of Maiduguri, the state capital.
The attacks on Damboa and police station, according to an eyewitness, Isa Yahaya, commenced at 7.30 when gunmen in a convoy of over two dozens of Toyota
Hilux vehicles and motorcycles stormed the military brigade and a police station and killed nine soldiers and five policemen. Those who were not affected took cover at military posts before the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) fighter jet arrives to provide support to the soldiers on ground combat the insurgents.
“We were shocked and terrified when the Boko Haram gunmen showed up from the forest and started killing soldiers along with policemen in this town. The reports we are getting from some of our people that survived the Friday night attack that led to the killing of five of our local residents that supported the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) in the multiple clashes with insurgents indicates that the gunmen also carted away arms and ammunition of the military to an unknown location,” said Yahaya.
He said the fighter jet could not killed all the insurgents, as the pilot did not want to cause more civilian casualties, adding that scores of gunmen on motorcycles fleeing Damboa after the two-hour clashes were also killed alongside five other residents.
The Borno State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Gideon Jibrin, confirmed the Damboa attacks, saying he could not give the exact number of casualties.
Speaking via telephone in
Maiduguri, Sen. Mohammed Ali Ndume, who represents Borno South Senatorial District, said: “The attacks on military and police formations in Damboa happened shortly after breaking of fasting.
One of the CJTF members in Damboa called to inform me that many people and soldiers were killed, including dozens of insurgents.”
The Guardian also learnt that the 187-kilometre Maiduguri-Damboa-Biu Road was condoned off by the military as at yesterday to checkmate further attacks.
Also, a bomb exploded from a pickup van at a police checkpoint at Konduga Maiduguri, killing five people on the spot and injuring 19 others. The incident occurred three days after at similar blast at the Maiduguri Monday Market (MMM) that killed 17.
Konduga is located on the Maiduguri-Bama Road, 40 kilometres east of the state capital.

Source
http://www.theguardianmobile.com/readNewsItem1.php?nid=29438

Where is the retaliatory attacks from our soldiers when we need it most?
#i'mjustsaying