translated from Spanish: Nigeria investigates suicide of Boko Haram leader

According to data reported by the AFP news agency, which received a recording with a voice similar to that of the ISWAP leader, the leader of the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, reportedly committed suicide during a fight against members of a rival jihadist group. So far, Boko Haram has not commented on reports of its leader’s death, which are being investigated by the Nigerian Army. ISWAP explained in the recording that it sent its fighters to a Boko Haram enclave in the Sambisa forest, near the border with Cameroon, and that, after seeing that Shekau was sitting inside his house, he started the shooting.” From there he retreated and escaped, ran and hid in the bushes for five days. However, the fighters continued to search for him,” explained the voice of the recording, in the Kanuri Saharan language. After finding him, ISWAP fighters asked Shekau and his followers to surrender, according to the recording, but the Book Haram leader refused and took his own life to which the leader of the Islamic state added “Shekau preferred to be humiliated in the afterlife than to be humiliated on earth. , he killed himself by detonating an explosive.” We are very happy,” the voice said, adding that Shekau was “someone who committed terrorist acts and unimaginable atrocities.” Boko Haram is a jihadist organization founded in Nigeria in 2009, which expanded its attacks to neighboring Chad, Cameroon and Niger.

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