Fifty fleeing members of the Boko Haram
sect were said to have been apprehended by soldiers in Biu, south of
troubled Borno State.
Security sources revealed that the
insurgents who were travelling from the Damboa axis of the state hid in a
truck going to Gombe.
A security source told journalists that
the arrested men were in the custody of the Nigerian Army and might have
been detained at the Biu barrack.
The source said some youth vigilante in
Biu suspected the truck carrying sheep and goats might have other things
hidden in it. The suspicion made them to thoroughly search the vehicle
and in the process, the 50 young men were discovered.
He said the arrested men confessed to
being fighters of the Boko Haram Islamic sect, and were all on the run
following the reported killing of their leader, Abubakar Shekau, by the
military at Konduga last week
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