 Meanwhile, infighting among the military soon flared up again, and numerous officers, including Wasif and Bugha, were killed.Finally, due to the inability of the caliph to pay them, in July 869 a group of Turkish, North African and Ferghanan soldiers forced al-Mu'tazz to abdicate and he died from maltreatment a few days later.The only member of the Abbasid family to benefit from the conflict in the long term was Abu Ahmad.