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Nigeria's Boko Haram militants disguise as hunters to escape: military

Xinhua, June 28, 2016 Adjust font size:

Boko Haram militants in restive northeastern Nigeria now disguise as vigilante members and hunters to evade the military, the country's defense authority said Monday.

In a statement made available to Xinhua in Lagos, Nigeria's economic hub, spokesperson of the Nigerian Defense Headquarters, Brig. Gen. Rabe Abubakar, said the military discovered the Boko Haram militants' latest antics during a coordinated offensive against remnants of the terrorists in Sambisa forest.

He said the fleeing terrorists now disguise as vigilantes or hunters to evade easy detection.

"The terrorists, after they have been smoked out of Sambisa forest and in their desperation to wreak havoc on innocent Nigerians and to remain relevant, devised a new tactics of dressing like vigilantes or hunters to deceive unsuspecting members of the public on their true identity," he added.

"The case of Kuda-Kaya Village in Madadali community of Adamawa State where a group of Boko Haram terrorists, dressed like vigilantes, opened fire on elated people during a ceremony readily come to mind," he said. Endit