Nigeria's military has launched air strikes on a Boko Haram camp, killing several Islamists, near a northeastern college campus where insurgents massacred over 78 students at the weekend, a spokesman said Thursday.
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"We tracked the Boko Haram terrorists to their camp in the forest outside Gujba," military spokesman in Yobe state Lazarus Eli said of the Tuesday operation.
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"Fighter jets bombarded the camp while troops launched a ground offensive, which left several terrorists dead," Eli added.
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On Sunday, heavily armed Boko Haram gunmen attacked an agricultural college in Gujba, killing 40 students as they slept in their dorms.
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Gujba is roughly 30 kilometres (18 miles) from Yobe's capital of Damaturu.
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"The whole camp was destroyed in the raid and we are on the trail of fleeing members of the terrorist group," Eli said.