Nigerian helicopter crashes while fighting Boko Haram

A Nigerian Air Force helicopter crashed on Wednesday, according to a tweet by the air force spokesperson, during the fighting raged against Boko Haram extremists……..  felix

The airforce spokes person said that the fighting was at Damasak in Northern Borno state,  without giving details of the fate of the helicopter crew.

The military is fighting to regain control of Baga, which Boko Haram seized last week. The town is a key base for a multinational force fighting the extremists. Many Baga residents have fled to the larger city of Maiduguri. Nigeria’s military rarely announces death tolls in such attacks, but the government in November acknowledged dozens of soldier deaths in what it called an extremist resurgence. The nearly decade-old Boko Haram insurgency has been blamed for about 20,000 deaths and thousands of abductions. The unrest and displacement of millions of  people have turned northeastern Nigeria into a humanitarian crises.