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According to what emerged, the jihadists continue to try “to enter a bunker where 25 humanitarian workers have taken refuge.” “The humanitarian base was set on fire by the fighters, but so far no employees have been hit,” said a source.
To repel the jihadists, military reinforcements were sent to Dikwa from the city of Mars, 40 kilometers away. “Two fighters and a combat helicopter provide air support to repel the jihadists and remove them from the humanitarian base,” anonymous sources said.
The attack on the city ISWAP, affiliated with ISIS, split from Boko Haram in 2016 and has since become the biggest jihadist threat in Nigeria. On Friday, ISWAP fighters in trucks equipped with machine guns stormed Dikwa, prompting residents to flee. The city, 90 kilometers from the state capital of Borno Maiduguri, is home to more than 130,000 people, including 75,000 who have already fled other parts of the region and who live in camps where they depend on emergency aid from humanitarian agencies. .
Previous Three years ago, on March 1, 2018, ISWAP terrorists in a similar action attacked a UN humanitarian center in the city of Rann, killing three humanitarian workers and kidnapping a female worker.
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