(Security): A Soldier Kills an Aid Worker, injures UN co-pilot at Army Base in Nigeria

A rampaging Nigerian soldier shot dead an aid worker, and another soldier and wounded a co-pilot of a UN helicopter in Nigeria's jihadist-ridden northeast, the military said on Thursday, November 17, 2022.

In a statement, the spokesman for the Anti-jihadist Military Operation, Samson Nantip Zhakom said, “on Thursday, at a military base in the northeast, a soldier shot and killed a staff member of one of the NGOs providing humanitarian aid in the region. The same soldier also killed another soldier and wounded the co-pilot of one of the UN helicopters," adding that the co-pilot's condition was stable".

The statement added that the soldier was then "immediately neutralised" by his colleagues, without giving further details on the killings and the killer's motive. According to him, the bodies of the two victims were taken to a military hospital and investigations have begun.

Historically, since 2009, Nigeria's armed forces have struggled to fight the Islamic State and Boko Haram jihadist groups leading an insurgency northeast of Africa's most populous country. The conflict, which has left more than 40,000 people dead and two million displaced, has created one of the worst global humanitarian crises of the 21st century.

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