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Nigerian Army Kills 16 Boko Haram Militants, Repels Attack

© REUTERS / Emmanuel BraunNigerien soldiers hold up a Boko Haram flag that they had seized in the recently retaken town of Damasak, Nigeria, March 18, 2015
Nigerien soldiers hold up a Boko Haram flag that they had seized in the recently retaken town of Damasak, Nigeria, March 18, 2015 - Sputnik International
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Nigeria’s armed forces have successfully thwarted an attack by local radical group Boko Haram in the Borno region, killing 16 extremists and recovering their arms and ammunition, the army’s press service said in a statement.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Boko Haram extremist group began large-scale attacks in northeast Nigeria in 2009. Last year, the group expanded attacks into neighboring Niger, Cameroon and Chad. The extremist group pledged allegiance to the Daesh, outlawed in Russia and many other countries, in March 2015.

"Troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE at harbour in Kangarwa yesterday successfully repelled suspected remnants of Boko Haram terrorists attack. The alert troops rose to the occasion and dealt a decisive blow on the insurgents, by killing 16 of them and recovering arms and ammunitions from them," the statement published Monday reads.

During the operation, 11 soldiers and one officer were wounded, the press service added.

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