Nigeria Shootout: 11 Boko Haram men killed

LAGOS: Nigerian troops killed 11 Boko Haram supporters during a shootout Saturday in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, a stronghold of the group blamed for more than 200 deaths this year, the army said. A spokesman for the special military squad set up to crack down on Boko Haram confirmed the incident, and said no soldiers were hurt. The operation came in response to a series of increasingly brazen attacks by Boko Haram that have tipped Nigeria into a security crisis.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 29^th, 2012.