Suspected Boko Haram insurgents have killed an unspecific number of Nigerian soldiers in an overrun of the military base in Marte Local Government Area of Borno State.
According to information gathered by NPO Reports, the attack occurred around 3:00am on Monday at the Forward Operating Base of the 153 Task Force Battalion.
During the attack, the gunmen reportedly burnt armoured tanks and made away with ammunition, sources said.
“There was another Boko Haram dislodgement in Marte 153 TF Battalion on Saturday night, so many of our men are feared dead as we already lost communication with the base since the attack,” one of the sources, a Major in the Army, told SaharaReporters.
For over a decade, Nigeria has been locked in a brutal conflict with insurgent groups operating primarily in the country’s North East region.
The most prominent among them is Boko Haram, which emerged in the early 2000s but became violently active around 2009, launching a campaign of terror marked by bombings, mass abductions, and attacks on civilian and military targets.