A clash between Boko Haram insurgents and Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) fighters has led to the death of over 41 terrorists.
OsunDailyNG gathered that the supremacy battle took place on Wednesday in Duguri, Kukawa Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno State.
According to a counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, the clash happenedย when ISWAP attacked Boko Haram fighters.
Makama said an impeccable source stated that the ISWAP terrorists who came on several canoes attacked the Boko Haram group and killed several of their commanders in the process.
He said: โAt least 41 fighters from the Jamฤโat Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Daโwah waโl-Jihฤd, Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP), including commanders killed after an infighting that broke out Wednesday in the North East of Borno state.
โIt was gathered that the ISWAP terrorists who came on several canoes attacked the Bakoura Buduma-led faction of Boko Haram in the axis of Duguri in Kukawa Local Government Area.
โImpeccable sourceย stated that the bloody encounter left 41 fighters killed on both sides including commanders of the group.
โHe said that the ISWAP dealt a heavy blow on the Boko Haram terrorists, leaving many of their commanders killed.
โThe source listed some of the commanders to include; Modu Kayi, Abbah Musa, Isa Muhammed, Ibrahim Ali, Kanai Zakariya and Bula Salam, Isuhu Alhaji Umaru, Dogo Salman and Abdulrahman Malam Musa among others.
โClashes between Boko Haram and ISWAP became increasingly common and intense, notably, in Borno stateโs Sambisa forest and the Lake Chad region.
โThe ISWAP were now having an upper hand following defection of one Abou Idris, a former chief of operation of Boko Haram, who joined ISWAP to fight his former group.โ
