Boko Haram militants attacked Buni Yadi, Yobe State, late on Thursday and it was unclear how the fighting ended, military sources said.
There was no information on casualties in the attack that started at around 9pm (2000 GMT), the sources said on Friday.
A Reuters correspondent saw a detachment of troops with armoured personel carriers and a fighter jet heading towards Buni Yadi on Friday morning.
Meanwhile, Cameroon’s army has repulsed an attack by Boko Haram and killed three insurgents in heavy fighting in the Far North region of the country, a Cameroon government spokesman said on Thursday.
The attack represented a change of tactics by the militants following a series of battlefield defeats this year in which they have lost territory to a regional force that comprises Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, spokesman Issa Tchiroma said.
“Early Tuesday morning at about 3:40am (0140 GMT) an enemy column in four-wheel drive vehicles opened fire on positions held by our defence forces,” he said of the attack in Bodo town.
“There followed violent combat until dawn. Faced with the repost of our soldiers, the aggressors beat a retreat leaving behind three dead, a quantity of weapons and a lot of blood,” he said. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Thank you Soldiers for the heightened courage, brave, national-regional commitment call and humanity service. Indeed this monster and bad omen BOKOHARAM to have also defiled the sacred month. They have no iota of human in them. Such they deserve, a total full scale war to erased them and their traces. Painful, raging and fierce death should be snuffed from them.
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