Social media users are currently circulating the pictures of some of the 50 people reportedly killed in a recent ambush by Boko Haram members in the northeast during an oil exploration process. According to multiple online reports, these are the faces of some of the Civilian Joint Task Force members who lost their lives alongside some NNPC oil workers when Boko Haram attacked/kidnapped them.
More than 50 people were killed in a Boko Haram ambush on an oil exploration team in northeast Nigeria earlier this week, multiple sources told a reporter on Thursday, warning the death toll could rise.
Tuesday’s attack in the Magumeri area of Borno State on a convoy of specialists from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) was the Islamist militants’ deadliest in months.
It underscored the persistent threat posed by the jihadists, despite government claims they were a spent force, and also the risks associated with the hunt for crude in the volatile Lake Chad basin.
Details of the ambush, which was initially thought to be a kidnapping attempt, have been slow to emerge and an exact death toll difficult to establish, as the military strictly controls access to rural Borno.
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