A woman looks through burnt livestocks and litters on the ground caused by Boko Haram Islamists at Mairi village outskirts of Maiduguri capital of northeast Borno State, on February 6, 2016. Suspected Boko Haram Islamists have killed four people following raids on villages in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, a local official and residents said on February 6. The motorcycle-riding Islamists late On February 5 raided two villages, Mairi and Malari setting homes ablaze, and killing three women and a man in the village. The raids came barely a week after the attack on the village of Dalori, just outside Maiduguri, capital of the restive state, which left at least 85 people dead. / AFP / STRINGER
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Another deadly mine planted by suspected Boko Haram terrorists has left an officer in the Cameroonian army dead, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
L’Oeil du Sahel said Captain Ekoume was killed on Tuesday night after his vehicle stepped on a mine while he was on his way to Gouzda Vreket in Cameroon’s far north.
The newspaper said another officer, Captain Wadai Ange, and other soldiers were also injured in the explosion. It was not clear whether all the soldiers were travelling in the same vehicle.
A lieutenant colonel was killed the same way recently while he was journeying back from Nigeria to Cameroon, following joint military operations with the Nigerian armed forces against Boko Haram. A captain was murdered also the same manner.
At least 71 soldiers have been killed in Cameroon since 2013 and about 1300 civilians have been murdered by the terrorists within the same period.
The war against Boko Haram does not seem close to being over, even though the Nigerian minister of information told SimonAtebaNews last Friday that terrorism has been defeated in Nigeria and Boko Haram was only venting its last rage with suicide bombings on soft targets such as mosques, churches and market places.
But in statements after the statements, the Nigerian Army continues to claim it is clearin Boko Haram camps and pulling down still hoisted flags, away from the terrorists headquarters in the Sambisa forest.
That forest is believed to host about 10, 000 Boko Haram terrorists surrounded with buried mines and armed with sophisticated weapons acquired from Libya or Russia.