Boko Haram Explosion Killed Two Soldiers

Boko Haram militants planted and remotely detonated a bomb near the south-eastern Niger town of Diffa, two soldiers were killed on Wednesday, March 4^th 2015.
According to Niger military sources, they went after two insurgents responsible for the attack and killed them, Leadership reports.

Niger’s army spokesman, Col. Ledru Mustapha said: “We had two soldiers killed yesterday in a remote-controlled explosion. We took up the chase and killed the two militants responsible for the attack near a bridge over the Kamadougou River.”

This is the first time Niger’s army has reported being attacked with a remote-controlled bomb since it launched a campaign with Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria this year against the Islamist sect.  

The Boko Haram terrorist group has killed thousands in its bid to set up an Islamist state in the northeast region of Nigeria.

In recent months, it has launched a series of cross-border attacks on Cameroon, Chad and Niger. 

Following such attacks, these neighbouring countries had to join forces with Nigeria to rout the insurgents and ever since they joined forces, the military has recovered most of the territories captured by Boko Haram.

Some days back, Boko Haram reportedly attacked an island of Niger, killing many.

Cameroonian soldiers had expressed worry that the number of Boko Haram terrorists keep increasing even though they have killed plenty of them.