Smoke rises from Maiduguri prison after it was set on fire by members of an Islamic sect in Yobe state, in Nigeria on Monday. (Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters) Nigerian Islamists Routed As Army Storms Mosque -- Times Online
The Nigerian army claimed today that it has decisively overpowered a violent sect of radical Islamists who have murdered hundreds in the name of al-Qaeda.
Soldiers shelled the group’s compound and killed around 100 militants in a fierce gun-battle at their mosque last night.
Mohammed Yusuf, the leader of the militant Boko Haram sect, managed to escape the fighting in Maiduguri along with about 300 of his followers, but his deputy was killed, soldiers said.
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