In addition to Maiduguri also the nearby transport hub Monguno being attacked by Boko Haram insurgents, said the Ministry of Defence of Nigeria. The Army and the Air Force are in the process repel the terrorists.
Curfew for residents
About Maiduguri, where, according to estimates, about one million people, has imposed a curfew "until further notice". Military and Government representatives reported on, the fighting had begun shortly after midnight. A Reuters eyewitness stated that military helicopters circled the city. Gunfire was heard. Information about possible fatalities and injuries are not available. A conquest of Maiduguri would be a great success for the insurgents.Objective: City of God
The sectarian terrorist group Boko Haram, which mutatis mutandis with "Western education is sin" can be translated, has been fighting for years in the predominantly Muslim north of Nigeria for the establishment of a theocracy. In attacks on security forces, government agencies, schools, and churches extremists killed more than 15,000 people since 2009. More than a million people fled the violence.A few weeks ago the Sunni fundamentalists attacked the town of Baga and killed hundreds of people in a major offensive in the region and forced tens of thousands to flee.
Released nearly 200 hostages
On Saturday, the terrorists had released 192 hostages. If it were mainly women and children who had been kidnapped from a village in the northeast of the country three weeks ago, authorities said a representative. The information has been confirmed military sources.Some of the women released by said correspondent reports that they had been sent away by the Islamists because they had refused to live by the rules of Boko Haram. For details were not known.
The terrorist group has over recent years often abducted young people especially. According to security experts boys were forcibly recruited as fighters, girls zwangsverheirat or abused as sex slaves. International shocked particular the abduction of 200 students by Boko Haram fighters at April 2014th
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