About 18 members of the Boko Haram Islamist militant group and their
families surrendered to Nigerian soldiers after clashes in the northern
state of Borno between factions loyal to the group’s founder, Abubakar
Shekau, and the new head Abu Musab Albarnawi.
“They are under
custody of Monguno command and we believe the dual battle between
Albarnawi and Shekau’s camps may have compelled them to sneak out and
surrender,” Ali Mohammed, a member of a vigilante group in northeastern
town of Monguno, said Wednesday by phone.
Nigeria’s military said
it may have killed Shekau, the disputed leader of the Boko Haram, during
an air strike on the Sambisa forest in Borno on Aug. 19. The Nigerian
authorities have reported Shekau’s probable death at least twice before,
including in 2014 and 2013.
Shekau
took over the militant group in 2009, when it began an insurgency that
has killed tens of thousands of people in a bid to impose its version of
Islamic law on Africa’s most populous nation.
Source:Bloomberg
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