News: Residents Flee Homes Amid Heavy Shooting In Maiduguri

Hundreds of residents fled their homes in Maiduguri as sporadic and sustained  gun  shots  rang out in the city.

A military source Confirm to us that some Boko Haram who fled Sambisa Forest, a notorious Boko Haram
camp, following heavy bombardment by the military forces, launched sporadic shooting at about 6.30pm yesterday.

The Nigerian troops have been pushing out the insurgents as air and ground assault on the major Boko Haram Sambisa hideout continued. Some of the insurgents who fled the onslaught were said to have fired several shots in an attempt to enter the city through the cashew plantation, behind the Giwa Army Barrack yesterday.

Boko Haram had attacked the barrack early 2013 through same route which also lead to Borno central town of Konduga, about 15 kilometres to Sambisa.

Many residents of GRA said they fled their houses as shooting rages till darkness enveloped the capital city. “I couldn’t wait because I saw many people parking their few luggages and fleeing into the central area of the city,” a resident who did not want his name in print told us.

He said he decide to “move out” his family from the GRA-few metres away from the shooting area-because the shooting was getting closer to the city every passing moment.”

There was no official statement from the military as at the time of filing this report.