ABUJA: Three militia fighters and 11 Boko Haram militants have been killed in a clash in a village in northeastern Nigeria, a local resident and a member of the militia fighting alongside the army said Tuesday.
News of the clash came as Nigeria's military spokesman told AFP a new regional force tasked with fighting the jihadists should go into action very soon, though he did not specify when for tactical reasons.
"On Monday afternoon around 2:00 pm (1300 GMT), Boko Haram gunmen on motorcycles attacked our village," said Markus Yohana, a local militia member fighting the Islamists in Dille in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria.
"They killed three vigilantes and seized a car," he said, adding that soldiers ambushed the raiders as they tried to flee, killing 11.
AFP
