RENEWED clashes between the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) have left 41 terrorists, including their commanders, dead.
The clashes between the two terror groups occured on Wednesday in Borno State, Nigeria.
Witnesses confirm that the ISWAP terrorists arrived in many canoes to confront the Bakoura Buduma-led faction of Boko Haram in Duguri axis in Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno.
A counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, corroborated the story.
The expert pointed out that both sides recorded casualties, including their Commanders.
The Boko Haram sect are, however, believed to have come off worse from the clash.
An unnamed source identified some of the slain Boko Haram commanders as: Abdulrahman Malam Musa, Abbah Musa, Isa Muhammed, Isuhu Alhaji Umaru, Kanai Zakariya and Bula Salam, Ibrahim Ali, Dogo Salman and Modu Kayi, among others.
Both terror groups have been at each other’s throats in recent times, with deadly clashes occuring in Borno State and the Lake Chad borderlines.
