The Nigerian Army has launched air strikes on a Boko Haram camp, killing several Islamists, near a northeastern college campus where insurgents massacred over 78 students at the weekend.
“We tracked the Boko Haram terrorists to their camp in the forest outside Gujba,” military spokesman in Yobe state Lazarus Eli said.
“Fighter jets bombarded the camp while troops launched a ground offensive, which left several terrorists dead,” Eli added.
On Sunday, heavily armed Boko Haram gunmen attacked an agricultural college in Gujba, killing 78 students as they slept in their dorms.
Gujba is roughly 30 kilometres (18 miles) from Yobe’s capital of Damaturu.
“The whole camp was destroyed in the raid and we are on the trail of fleeing members of the terrorist group,” Eli said. - vanguard.
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