Boko Haram fighters on Monday, November 6 attacked Bakin Dutse village as they advanced to Gulak, the headquarters of Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State.
But the local vigilance joined the troops of the Nigerian army to repel the attacks.
Many terrified residents have fled the town and are hiding in the bush, mountains, and hills, while reports say the two sides lost men to the gun duel.
Channels Television quoted the Adamawa State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Ahmad Sajoh, as saying that the military and the insurgents were engaged in a fierce battle, with residents fleeing for their lives.
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According to the report, the vigilance group in the town and the hunters association assisted the military to repel the attack and gunshots could be heard all over.
The Chairman of Madagali LGA, Alhaji Mohammed Yusuf, also confirmed the attack to Channels Television in Yola.
He described the attack as “very heavy and likely to result in the loss of lives.”
According to Yusuf, the latest attack comes barely 24 hours after two male suicide bombers entered the home of a family in Tsilah village near Madagali and held a woman and her daughter hostage.
Thereafter, they detonated the explosives strapped to their bodies, the woman and her baby died in the process.
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