Heavily armed Boko Haram terrorists attacked Gajiram in 11 gun trucks. Police personnel deployed to the area alongside troops of the Nigerian military engaged the terrorists and promptly repelled the attack

Perpetrators

Boko Haram

Response

Borno State Police Public Relations Officer DSP Edet Okon issued a statement confirming the attack and that police and troops repelled the attack with no police casualties. He noted that reinforcements had been mobilized and deployed to the town

Displacement

0

Socioeconomic drivers

Boko Haram’s continued probing of military and police positions to test defences and demonstrate operational presence in the Lake Chad basin area after territorial losses.

Trajectory

Boko Haram increasingly used large convoys of gun trucks for direct assaults on security positions in outlying towns as an asymmetric tactic to maintain pressure and visibility near Maiduguri.

Cycle notes

Mirrored earlier Boko Haram attacks including 10 December 2017 – coordinated assault on a military formation in Damboa, 11 March 2018 – attempted urban incursion toward Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri, 25 December 2017 – Molai checkpoint attack using convoy infiltration tactics, 21 April 2015 – Baga military base assault using heavy weapons and massed fighters, and 2014–2015 – repeated Boko Haram attacks on military positions using vehicle-borne assault groups, collectively reflecting a recurring pattern in which Boko Haram deploys large, mobile strike convoys (often mounted on gun trucks) to launch direct assaults on security positions, aiming to overwhelm defenses, test response capacity, and project continued battlefield capability across the Lake Chad Basin despite territorial losses.

Pattern

Military Base Assault

Sources

• https://punchng.com/boko-haram-kills-nine-soldiers-in-borno/?noamp=mobile&amp
• https://dailypost.ng/2018/06/19/boko-haram-terrorists-11-trucks-attack-borno-town-gajiram/