25 Nigerian soldiers killed in northeast country
Sunday 26/May/2019 - 02:21 PM
As many as 25 Nigerian soldiers were killed in an ambush in
northeast Nigeria on Saturday morning, security sources were quoted by Voice of
America as saying.
Militants opened fire as the soldiers were escorting a
groups of evacuees from a village in Borno state, where Boko Haram and other militants
have been fighting for a decade.
Nigeria's government has said the Boko Haram insurgency and
the rival Islamic State West Africa Province group are on their last legs.
