Battles of the Kasiya Forest

Battles of the Kasiya Forest
Part of Boko Haram insurgency
DateSeptember 12-13, 2013
Location
Kasiya Forest, Borno State, Nigeria
Result Nigerian victory (1st battle)
Boko Haram victory (2nd battle)
Belligerents
Nigeria Boko Haram
Commanders and leaders
Unknown Abba Goroma †
Units involved

7th Division

  • 81st Battalion

12th Brigade

  • 134th Battalion
 Unknown
Casualties and losses
Total: 56 killed, 74 missing
1st battle: 16 killed, 9 missing
2nd battle: 40 killed, 65 missing		 150+ killed

On September 12 and 13, 2013, Nigerian forces stormed a Boko Haram camp in the Kasiya forest in northeast Borno State, Nigeria, killing around 150 militants and sixteen soldiers. The day afterward, the surviving Boko Haram militants ambushed a different group of Nigerian soldiers on the outskirts of the Kasiya forest near Kangarwa, killing 40 soldiera and leaving 65 others missing.

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