They also attacked the palace of the emir of Askira in Askira-Uba local government area of Borno State. on Monday. The casualty figure was not clear at press time, although an earlier attack by them on Sunday night was repelled They returned on Monday.
At least three bomb explosions were detonated on Tuesday at a military checkpoint in Biu town, killing eight people, and injuring several others.
The Nigerian military fired back on the attackers and killed 17 of them, a security source told Reuters.
Auwalu Ibrahim, a local pro-government vigilante, said there were children around the checkpoint when the blasts went off. “Everyone has been told to go home due to apprehension about the blasts,” he said.
A nurse at the Biu general hospital said eight bodies had been brought in from the blast. Six people were receiving treatment for wounds, she added.
In a separate attack bearing the hallmarks of the militant group, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a restaurant in Potiskum, Yobe State, killing three people and wounding 12, a hospital source said.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of people marched through Niger’s capital Niamey on Tuesday to support their military following a series of Boko Haram attacks along the Nigeria border.
Nigerian soldiers recaptured two towns on Monday as U.S. and regional troops began war games in neighbouring Chad in a growing international campaign.
Nigerien President, Mamahadou Issoufou, boasted that his country would “be the tomb” of the terrorist sect.
President Issoufou addressing thousands of countrymen who staged a protest against the sect.
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