For the second time, gunmen have attacked the military camp in Allawa in Rafi local government area of Niger state killing some soldiers and burning down their camp.
The gunmen numbering about 200 invaded Allawa town about 10;00pm on Thursday and made their straight to the Military camp and engaged the soldiers in a fierce gun battle which lasted for several hours.
A source close to Allawa town to The Sun that some of the gunmen also met their Waterloo in the hands of the soldiers but details of the actual casualties is still sketchy as the time of filing this report as nobody could go inn or out of Allawa town.
A number of the villagers were equally caught in the crossfire between the soldiers and the gunmen, living the entire town now deserted as the villagers have escaped to the bush.
This latest onslaught by the gunmen is coming barely one week after a similar attack, targeting the Joint Security TaskForce camp at Galadiman Kogo led to the killing of 11 members of the security TaskForce and unspecified numbers of civilians.
Houses, food barns, vehicles, and other properties worth millions of naira were burnt down by the gunmen.
Recalled that in April last year, the gunmen invaded the same military camp in Allawa, killing five soldiers and an Inspector of Police.
This led to the shutting down of the camp by the Military but was reopened a month after with more deployments of additional troops to the area.