{"id":111109,"date":"2024-03-25T17:52:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T16:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=111109"},"modified":"2024-03-25T17:52:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T16:52:41","slug":"terrorists-attack-military-base-kill-soldier-burn-patrol-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/terrorists-attack-military-base-kill-soldier-burn-patrol-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorists attack military base, kill soldier, burn patrol vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Suspected terrorists about midnight of Saturday, March 23, attacked a military base in Gujba town, Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State, killing a soldier.<\/p>\n<p>Yobe State Police Command\u2019s spokesman, DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, who confirmed the attack on Sunday, said a military patrol vehicle was also torched by the suspected terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing I can confirm to you now is the attack. A soldier was killed, and troops and CJTF engaged the suspected terrorists,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the suspected insurgents, who stormed the town by 12 midnight, shooting indiscriminately and subsequently attacking the military base, were later repelled by troops who chased them out to the surrounding bush.<\/p>\n<p>A resident of Gujba, Modu Bahna, while narrating his ordeal, said, \u201cThey (suspected terrorists) stormed the town some minutes after midnight, shooting sporadically and majority of us took to our heels into the surrounding bushes for our dear lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attackers did not kill any civilian or loot food or other essential commodities stores,\u201d another source, Dala Bukar, said, adding, \u201cThey only attacked the two patrol vehicles in the military base where a soldier was killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jam\u0101\u2019at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da\u2019wah wa\u2019l-Jih\u0101d, has claimed that its fighters killed a Nigerian soldier in Yobe State.<\/p>\n<p>According to ISWAP in a statement, the soldier was killed when the terrorists attacked a military base in Gujba town in the Gujba Local Government Area of the state on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Gujba is about 30 kilometres away from Damaturu, the Yobe State capital.<\/p>\n<p>The terror group added that it razed two military operational vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn attack targeted a Nigerian army barracks, in the town of Gujba in the Yobe area, using various weapons, killing one member and making the others run away, and then burning two vehicles, and taking a heavy machine gun and a medium one and ammunition,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Since the death of JAS leader, Abubakar Shekau, ISWAP has been consolidating its grip in locations around Lake Chad.<\/p>\n<p>The sect\u2019s membership has swollen with the defection of hundreds of Boko Haram fighters under Shekau.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected terrorists about midnight of Saturday, March 23, attacked a military base in Gujba town, Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State, killing a soldier. 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