2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2025 On the night of 5–6 May 2014, Boko Haram militants attacked the twin towns of Gamboru and Ngala in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria.
[1][3][2] During the same night, Boko Haram abducted eight girls aged between 12 and 15 from northeast Nigeria,[4][5] a number later raised to eleven.
[6] Gamboru Ngala accommodated the security garrison, which had left the town before the attack to pursue the perpetrators of the Chibok schoolgirl kidnapping.
[7] According to the Nigerian senator Ahmed Zanna and several residents, the security forces left Gamboru Ngala after Boko Haram militants had spread rumours that the kidnapped schoolgirls had been spotted elsewhere.
[8] Armed with AK-47s and RPGs, the militants attacked the town on two armored personnel carriers, stolen from the Nigerian military several months earlier.