Suspected Boko Haram terrorist members killed six people in an attack on a commercial convoy being escorted by the Nigerian Army in Borno State, the military said on Monday.
The Nigerian Army spokesman Sani Usman said suspected elements of the group who were foraging for food had ambushed troops escorting the commercial vehicles from Damboa to Maiduguri, a journey of around 50 miles (80 km).
“Unfortunately, five civilians lost their lives at the incident and another died on the way to the hospital,” said Usman. “Three soldiers also sustained injuries.”
The Boko Haram have been greatly weaken and its being flushed out of the swathe of land it once control in the Sambissa forest by the Nigerian military but nevertheless continued to carry out suicide bombings in Nigeria and neighbouring Cameroon, Niger and Chad.
