Another attempt by the dreaded Islamic terrorist group Boko Hara to kidnap another set of secondary school girls in Borno State has been foiled by the Nigerian army. Two suspected Chadian mercenaries fighting on the side of Boko Haram were reportedly killed on Thursday during an attempted attack on soldiers guarding a secondary school in Gwoza local government area of Borno State, government officials said. The gunmen, according to eyewitnesses, crept up to the perimeter fencing of Government Secondary School, Ville, leaving their vehicles in the bush, but were luckily spotted by some students who raised the alarm for others to flee.
Ville is a little community at the outskirts of Gwoza,near Izge village, where Boko Haram attacked recently and killed over 60 villagers and burnt several houses. According to a local council official, Mr Amos, “the alarm raised by the students had helped other soldiers and security operatives in other parts of the rocky community to mobilize down to the school where they all engaged the Boko Haram terrorists in about an hour of shooting”.
Mr Amos said the gunmen would have succeeded in ambushing and maiming the soldiers as well as the students because “they had already divided themselves around all the flanks of the school, before they were spotted by the students”. He said two of the attackers suspected to be Chadians, due to their light skins, were however apprehended as they were trying to flee from the superior firepower of the soldiers and policemen.
“Two of the Boko Haram members arrested appeared lanky and fair-skinned; they look more of Chadians than Nigerians. The angry mob who went out of the control of the security operatives mobbed them and set them ablaze using used vehicle tyres,” said the council official. He added that other suspected Boko Haram terrorists that fled escaped with their vehicles heading towards the forest around Izge.
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