Dozens of fighters from Boko Haram, the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) and the Jam’at Ahl As-Sunnah Lid-Da’wah Wa’l-Jihd, were killed during a clash amongst the terrorist groups in Nigeria’s Borno State.
It was gathered that the clash took place at Duji village in Mobbar in Damasak Local Government of the State, five kilometres away from Diffa region in Niger Republic.
According to a counter-Insurgency expert and security analyst in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, the Bakoura Buduma-led faction of Boko Haram terrorists armed with heavy weapons, was the first to launch an attack on the rival extremist group in its hideouts.
It was gathered that prior to the clash, the Bakoura faction had captured one ISWAP fighter who escaped from their den but was recaptured along the way by the Budouma clan camp.
The fighter was forced to accompany Bakoura faction fighters to the ISWAP hideouts where in a heavy gun battle that ensued and lasted for more than two hours, the Boko Haram faction overpowered the ISWAP group and killed scores of them while Boko Haram lost one of its fighters.
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