Boko Haram overruns Nigeria military base in second attack in days

Boko Haram still launches regular raids against military and civilian targets in northern Nigeria, such as this one filmed by the group in January

Boko Haram jihadists overran a military base in northeast Nigeria after a ferocious firefight, security sources said Sunday, the second major assault on the country's forces in two days.

The militants invaded a base holding hundreds of soldiers in Yobe state -- where they abducted over 100 girls from a school earlier this year -- in an hours-long onslaught Saturday night, a military source told AFP on condition of anonymity.