Nigerian soldiers sack insurgents from Alagarno

Nigerian soldiers have sacked Islamist fighters belonging to Boko Haram from Alagarno, a town in Damboa local government area. Alagarno was one of the insurgent group’s strongholds. A senior military source said the routed insurgents were fleeing, adding that he believed their leader, Abubakar Shekau, was among those now on the run.
The insurgents were driven out of the town in a military operation in which the Nigerian military used sustained air bombardment for several days.
Hundreds of the Islamist fighters were killed in the operation. Hundreds more of the insurgents were now on the run.
Alagarno, which is located in the southern part of Borno State, is near Sambisa forests where the Islamist group first took more than 200 schoolgirls they abducted from the town of Chibok in Borno State.
The town is approximately 130 miles from Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State.
The general officer commanding the 7th Division of Nigeria Army, Major General Lamidi Adeosun, went yesterday to Alagarno to boost the morale of soldiers.