Members of Boko Haram over the night captured Borno state town, Askira Uba, TheCable has been told.
The attacked happened less than a day after the Nigerian military regained Monguno, the only town previously under the control of the sect.
“They attacked the town in the night and burnt down the emir’s palace,” the source, who didn’t want to be named, said.
“Most of the villagers ran away into the bush, so there was really no casualty.”
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Boko Haram launched an audacious attack on Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, and Monguno, also in the state, on January 25.
While troops succeeded in repelling the Maiduguri raid, Monguno fell the following day.
On Monday, troops flushed out the insurgents from the town, which meant at the time that no part of the state was under the sect’s grip.
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