Jihadists armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades killed six soldiers in an ambush in northeast Nigeria on Sunday, security sources said. “Two patrol vans came under fire from the terrorists and the leading vehicle was hit by an RPG, killing six soldiers on board,” a security source said Monday. Three jihadists were killed in a battle with soldiers following the ambush, a second security source said. In October a soldier and three civilians were killed when ISWAP militants attacked troops in Tungushe. The decade-long jihadist insurgency in northeast Nigeria has killed 35,000 people and displaced around two million people.

Source: The Guardian December 23, 2019 14:26 UTC