A Nigerian soldier fighting Boko Haram terrorists in Borno State has reportedly committed suicide.
The soldier identified as Kila Jima, a corporal in the Army’s 152 Battalion, Banki, was said to have suddenly cocked his rifle and shot himself in the head.
The incident happened on Saturday. It is not yet clear what led the soldier to kill himself.
He was said to have shown some sign of depression before he eventually took his life.
It gathered that his body has been deposited at the military mortuary in Maiduguri.
In March, a soldier, Bello Useni, with the Nigerian Army School of Armour in Bauchi killed himself.
In September 2020, a lance corporal attached to the Army’s 27 Task Force Brigade in Buni Gari, Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe state, committed suicide at his duty post.
In July 2020, a soldier in the Army’s 202 battalion in Bama, Borno state, killed a lieutenant who did not give him pass to visit his family.
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