A unit of the local militia group, otherwise kown as CJTF, pose for a group photograph in a compound in the city of Maiduguri, northern Nigeria June 5, 2017. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - His broken arm is in a bamboo splint, his torso pock-marked with shrapnel and his jaw wired together by a Nigerian army surgeon.
But 38-year-old vigilante Dala Aisami Angwalla is undaunted by two nearly fatal brushes in the last year with Boko Haram, one involving a landmine, the other an ambush, and is determined to rid northeast Nigeria of the jihadists.
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