Boko Haram ‘takes over’ Bama -BBC

The feared Boko Haram faction has seized the key north-eastern town of Bama after furious battling with government powers, inhabitants say.

A large number of regular folks have fled the town, alongside warriors, they included.

In any case, military sources said the armed force was still in control of Bama, the second greatest town in Borno state.

A month ago, Boko Haram said it had made an Islamic state in the towns and towns it controls in north-eastern Nigeria.

On the off chance that affirmed, the catch of Bama would be an amazingly huge improvement and would raise worries that Boko Haram's next target will be Maiduguri, the state capital around 70km (44 miles) away, says BBC Hausa administration editorial manager Mansur Liman in the capital, Abuja

Occupants told BBC Hausa that Boko Haram caught Bama, which the 2006 evaluation indicated had a populace of around 270,000, after overwhelming battling on Sunday and Monday.

The aggressors, who went in tanks and defensively covered trucks, initially seized the military garisson huts in the town, they said.

Troopers and inhabitants fled by walking, a significant number of them strolling the distance to Maiduguri, occupants told the BBC.

Nigerian security sources said the strike had been repulsed and around 70 activists had been murdered, news orgs report.

The aviation based armed forces was utilized to "unstick the bog of terrorists" from Bama, the military said on its Twitter account.

An overnight check in time has been forced in Maiduguri to anticipate "penetration" by aggressors after the "overwhelming losses" they endured, it included.

Boko Haram's five-year revolt has increased lately regardless of the sending of a large number of additional troops to the most noticeably bad influenced territories.

In April, the aggressors caught more than 200 young ladies from a life experience school in the town of Chibok, additionally in Borno state.