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We have taken their feud. They fled, but we are pursuing, said Col. Ben Ahonotu, head of military operations in Maiduguri, Borno State capital.

Witnesses living near the area of Bayan, where Islamist militants entrenched told AFP they had seen several Taliban flee their shelters.

According to police, more than 3,000 residents of Maiduguri, mainly Christians, Bayan fled to take refuge in the barracks.

military source told AFP that about 1,000 additional troops were deployed in Maiduguri on Wednesday afternoon.

The fighting between the Nigerian security forces and Islamic groups continued throughout the day Wednesday in Maiduguri, the bastion of fundamentalist sect in northeastern Nigeria, where clashes left at least 300 and killed according to police sources.

Police sources indicated that the fighting was concentrated in five neighborhoods in the city of Maiduguri, after the Nigerian president Umaru Yar #39; Adua ordered on Tuesday to end the move once and for all.

On Tuesday, security forces launched a vast offensive against the Islamist sect headed by Mohamed Yusuf in the capital of Borno state, in aim to end the uprising of these Taliban Nigerians who want to rid society of immorality and infidelity and is opposed to Western education.

The army Mortar fire a mosque, considereda hiding from the Taliban and the home of Mohamed Yusuf in Maiduguri.

One of the disadvantages faced by the troops is that there are still civilians in some slum, he said.

Throughout last night, witnesses heard gunfire in some neighborhoods of the city, an enclave of extremists who claimed to be Taliban. In the district of Bayan fighting stopped at mid-morning.

The violence erupted on Sunday when the Islamists tried to attack a police station in the state of Bauchi. Then spread to three other states: Borno, Kano and Yobe.

The heaviest fighting occurred in Maiduguri. However, this also clashes Wednesday in the state of Yobe where troops pursued the fleeing militiamen, apparently, into the jungle around the town of Potiskum.

A police source said that at least 43 people died Wednesday.

The 43 bodies were taken to police headquarters in Damaturu (the capital of Yobe) said a source who requested anonymity.

A police source said that ten tanks guarding a nearby prison where the authorities believe that is the target of militias.

The authorities indicated that 55 people died in the states of Bauchi and Yobe. However, most of the casualties occurred in Maiduguri, where police sources said that at least 206 people died on Monday alone.