It’s been gathered that hundreds of Islamic militants in trucks
and a stolen armored personnel carrier attacked an air force base on the
outskirts of Maiduguri before dawn today, officials and witnesses said,
possibly leaving scores of people dead in one of the insurgent group's most
daring attacks ever.
A military official at
the base said he saw three aircraft and several vehicles hit in the attack. The
state government quickly ordered everyone to stay home and extended a
night-time curfew to 24 hours in Maiduguri, the city near the air base which is
also the birthplace of the extremist Boko Haram movement.
Explosions and automatic
gunfire could be heard across the northeastern city from around 2:30 a.m. when
the insurgents launched the attack with screams of "Allahu akbar," or
"God is great."
Also according to sources, they too want Islamic rule imposed in the entire Nigeria.
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