Four dead in Boko Haram ambush

KANO, Nigeria: At least four people were killed when Boko Haram fighters opened fire on a military convoy transporting civilians and food aid in northeastern Nigeria, security sources said Sunday. Troops later killed two jihadists and recovered weapons after trailing them to nearby villages, the sources said. “We’ve been informed that Boko Haram terrorists killed four people in an ambush against a civilian convoy near Gamboru,” on the border with Cameroon late Saturday, Babakura Kolo, a member of a paramilitary force battling the jihadists, told.