In Nigeria, the leader of Abubakar Sheku’s terrorist group “Boko Haram” died in Russia, reports Reuters, with reference to the audio record, made by the militants also prohibited in Russia “West African province” Islamic state “(ISWAP).
On the recording of a person, allegedly being a leader of ISWAP Abu Musab al-Barnavi, said that Sheku died on May 18, having endured with him when the militants pursued him after the fight. In a conversation with the Agency, two people confirmed that the voice on the records really belonged to al-barnavi.
According to the publication, Death Sheku will allow ISWAP to gain a basic leader in the region of Lake Chad and send their efforts on the military and government.
Boko Haram group appeared in 2002, her leader was Mohammed Yusuf. From 2009, he was in the post changed Shekau. In 2015, the militants disagree with its methods of the militants from “Boko Haram” and jumped to the loyalty of the terrorist movement of ISIL prohibited in Russia, becoming its regional “branch”. About death Sheku has reported several times in recent years, but this data has been refuted every time.
The terrorists became known in 2014, when, under the leadership of Sheku, they attacked the school and kidnapped 276 girls from there in order to pass them to marry the militants or sell into slavery. Some schoolgirls managed to escape from the captivity, the fate of the rest is unknown so far.