100 of the vigilantes had participated in the
raid, which turned sour when the insurgents, seen as the main security
threat to Africa's top energy producer, ambushed them as they entered
the town's outskirts.
A member of
the government's mixed military and police Joint Task Force, who
declined to be named, confirmed the death toll from the incident as 24.
"They were ambushed even before they got
to the Boko Haram camps," one of the youth vigilantes Masta Moh'd, who was
not present during the attack on Friday in the town of Monguno, but had heard
from several of the survivors, told Reuters
source reuters.com
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