Terrorists suspected to be members of Boko Haram on Friday killed 15 security personnel in an ambush on the convoy of Borno state Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum.
Sources told AFP that eight policemen, three soldiers, and four members of Vigilante group were killed in the attack on vehicles carrying Gov. Zulum near the town of Baga on the shores of Lake Chad.
The insurgents opened fire with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades as the convoy was passing through a village close to the headquarters of the Multinational Joint Task Force, a military coalition of troops from Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon.
“The governor escaped unhurt but 15 security men on the convoy were killed in a fierce battle with the terrorists”, one source said.
Zulum was on an assessment tour of Baga in preparation for the return of thousands of residents displaced from the town by Boko Haram in 2014, the sources said.
All three sources were talking on condition of anonyonimity.
Daylight Reporters recall that in July, Zulum’s convoy came under gun attack outside Baga, forcing him to cancel his trip to the town.
Last week the Boko Haram terrorists killed a Nigerian army commander along with three soldiers in an ambush near the town of Damboa.
