Boko Haram warriors "surrender" as claimed boss slaughtered

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The military cases Mohammed Bashir was a faker acting like Boko Haram's pioneer Abubakar Shekau, thought to have kicked the bucket in 2009 

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The Nigerian military has said that more than 260 Boko Haram aggressors have surrendered in north-eastern Nigeria. 

A representative additionally said that the military had slaughtered the man acting like the bunch's pioneer, Abubakar Shekau. 

Mohammed Bashir is said to have showed up in the bunch's features yet is thought to be a faker. 

Boko Haram has endured overwhelming misfortunes lately as the Nigerian military combat the gathering near its main residence of Maiduguri in the north east. 

The military said that 135 Boko Haram parts surrendered with their weapons in Biu, Borno State, on Tuesday - and that 133 others surrendered somewhere else in north-eastern Nigeria and were at present being cross examined. 

The BBC's Will Ross in Lagos says that this has never happened previously in the war against Boko Haram. 

Despite the fact that it is difficult to autonomously check, the military is seeing it as a defining moment, our journalist includes. 

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It was likewise the first occasion when that the Nigerian military has freely specified the passing of the bunch's pioneer Abubakar Shekau, who security strengths guaranteed had passed on in conflicts with the armed force in 2009. 

General Chris Olukolade of the Nigerian military said that Mohammed Bashir, who was murdered in the most recent hostile against Boko Haram, was a twin. 

Bashir "had been acting or acting in features like the expired Abubakar Shekau, the unpredictable character known as pioneer of the gathering", he included. 

The military however did not give any dates or areas for when they accept pioneer Shekau really kicked the bucket. 

Talking at the United Nations Security Council meeting, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan urged the board to discover more approaches to battle the aggressor danger. 

"Proof has demonstrated that Boko Haram is sourced generally from outside our nation," he said. 

"Just by united activity and firm resolution would we be able to check this earnest danger to mankind furthermore fabricate the persisting structures that will oppose their re-development." 

"Boko Haram" signifies "Western training is illegal" in Arabic, and the gathering as often as possible assaults schools and universities, which it sees as an image of Western society. 

Boko Haram was behind the grabbing of more than 200 schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno state in April. 

The New York-based Human Rights Watch says more than 2,000 regular people have been murdered in the area in the not so distant future.