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Boko Haram leader behind kidnapping of 300 girls seriously injured after trying to blow himself up
Abubakar Shekau triggered bomb was he was surrounded by forces from rival Islamist group who wanted to capture him alive
21 May 2021 • 9:22am
Abubakar Shekau, seen in 2018, may be dead after attempting to evade capture
Credit: Handout / BOKO HARAM /AFP
The notorious leader of Islamist terror group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has been seriously injured with some reporting he is dead after trying to blow himself up, according to intelligence sources.
Shekau, the man behind the Chibok schoolgirl kidnapping in 2014, tried to kill himself to avoid capture when a rival group supported by the Islamic State surrounded him on Wednesday, sources told AFP.
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