Gombe attack: Military bombards, pursues terrorists

A combination of air and ground operation on Saturday repelled and pursued Boko Haram terrorists who invaded Gombe State and tried to terrorise citizens.

A tweet from Defence Headquarters handle confirmed the attack and the military overcoming it.

“The terrorists attack on Gombe has been repelled. Troops are in pursuit,” the brief tweet stated.

Security sources told PRNigeria that the terrorists are desperately seeking other places to set up camps as they are being pursued from their existing camps in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States.

In the last few weeks, Boko Haram camps in the northern parts of the states close to the borders with neighbouring countries have been under intense pressures from Nigerian troops in cooperation with troops from the Multi National Joint task Force.

Some of the camps have been destroyed.

And as they could no longer enter Cameroon and Niger so easily, the terrorists are moving southwards, the sources confirmed.

Eyewitnesses said the militants attacked soldiers at the security checkpoints at the edge of the town and forced their way into the quarter guard of the 301 Artillery Regiment in Gombe, Gombe State.

The quarter guard was burnt by the terrorists, but they could not proceed into the main barracks, which was a distance away.

The terrorists were said to have first invaded Dadin Kowa, a town 40 kilometres away from Gombe, the state capital, but as they approached the state capital, they were engaged from the air and a combination of troops and mobile policemen.