A multi-lingual video of the Bukura, a faction of Boko Haram, a Jihadist group in Northern Nigeria surfaced online showing members practicing combat drills and holding different variants of the Kalashnikov assault rifle with under folding, side-folding, and fixed wooden stocks.
The faction, operates in the northern part of Lake Chad, thus granting the terror group’s leader Abubakar Shekau an influence in an area dominated by the breakaway Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).
Boko Haram shared a 10-minute propaganda video of the group’s franchise in Lake Chad on Sunday.
An English speaking fighter dressed in a ghillie-type sniper veil spoke briefly and subsequently took a kneeling position to demonstrate his marksman skills using a Dragunov sniper rifle.
The Dragunov sniper rifle is common among Nigerien Army snipers involved in the military campaign against Boko Haram.
Last year, a group of fighters led by Ibrahim Bakura had pledged allegiance to Shekau in a video clip tagged Message of Congratulations and Glad Tidings from the Mujahidin in Lake Chad.
On March 23, the group attacked a Chadian military camp on Lake Chad’s Bohoma Peninsula, overrunning the camp and killing at least 98 Chadian soldiers.
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