MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Gunmen killed 15 Nigerian soldiers and wounded greater than a dozen others throughout an attack on a military base in the northern state of Kaduna, two military sources stated on Tuesday, in the newest attack on safety forces by armed gangs.
The gangs, designated as terrorists by the federal government, have prompted havoc in northwest Nigeria by attacking villages, cities and colleges and kidnapping lots of of scholars.
An military officer on the navy base in the city of Birnin Gwari in Kaduna informed Reuters that gunmen on motorbikes used rocket-propelled grenades and different heavy weapons throughout an attack that lasted greater than two hours on Monday night.
Eleven soldiers died in the course of the attack whereas 19 had been injured and brought to 3 completely different hospitals in Kaduna. Four soldiers later succumbed to their accidents, the officer stated.
“These should not atypical bandits I do know that we’re preventing. The bandits took away a number of weapons from our base,” stated the officer, who declined to be named as a result of he isn’t authorised to talk to the media.
An military spokesman didn’t reply to a number of calls and messages on his cell phone on Tuesday.
Birnin Gwari shares a border with the states of Zamfara and Niger, that are among the many scorching spots of armed gangs.
Another soldier on the Kaduna base stated three navy autos had been destroyed in the course of the attack and several other weapons had been lacking from the armoury.
A scenario report from the bottom to the military headquarters in Abuja seen by Reuters stated the scenario “is calm however extremely unpredictable.”
Nigeria’s navy is stretched because it fights an Islamist insurgency in the northeastern a part of the nation and the armed gangs in the northwest.
(Reporting by Maiduguri newsroom; Writing by MacDonald Dzirutwe; (*15*) by Paul Simao)
