Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Nigeria: Military reports indicate that leader of militant Boko Haram may have been killed

(Reuters) - The leader of militant Islamist sect Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, may have died of gunshot wounds some weeks after a clash with soldiers, the Nigerian military said on Monday.

In a statement, the army said that Shekau, blamed for a campaign of deadly attacks on security targets and churches in the country's north east, was hit during a gunbattle near one of his camps in the northeast on June 30.

He was then taken over the border into Cameroon where he was believed to have

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