[5] The army would then proceed to launch large scale air and land raids on Boko Haram, forcing the militants to hide out in the forested areas.
On 6 May 2014, around 200 people were killed when insurgents, dressed in military uniforms, attacked Gamboru, a town in the state of Borno at the Nigeria-Cameroon border.
[6] Boko Haram is a jihadist terrorist group in Nigeria that is demanding to impose sharia law upon the entire country.
Boko Haram launched its first terror attack in 2009, and have since been engaged in a low-intensity conflict against the Nigerian government, armed forces and inhabitants.
The violence became so widespread that on 14 May 2013, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in northern Nigeria and mobilized the army to battle the militants.