Shekau fails to appear again in Boko Haram latest video

Wanted leader of the violent Boko Haram insurgents, Abubakar Shekau, has for the second time in a row, missed out in the latest video released by the sect, the BBC reports on Monday.
His absence from the latest video has increased speculations that he might truly have been killed.

The last time Shakau was heard from was in March, when he released an audio message pledging allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group.
The latest, an eight-minute video, showed an unidentified young man who speaks in the name of the Islamic State in West Africa, calling on people to be patient: “We are still present everywhere we had been before.”
The video also shows the militants attacking a security checkpoint, seizing weapons, and slitting the throat of a man dressed in a police uniform.
It will be recalled that Shekau also failed to appear in a Boko Haram video released in June.