Four terrorists were on Sunday killed when soldiers cleared a suspected Boko Haram camp in Duwabafi village, Borno State.
In a statement issued yesterday by Col. Sani Kukasheka, the Acting Army Director, Public Relations in Maiduguri said: “In continuation with the fight against Boko Haram terrorists, on Sunday, troops of 243 Battalion, 5 Brigade, Nigerian Army on fighting patrol encountered some suspected elements of the terrorists holed up at a primary school in Duwabafi village.
The statement said troops killed four suspected terrorists in heavy gunfire, recovered two Ak-47 rifles, four various sizes of solar energy panels, drugs and five motorcycles.
“There was heavy exchange of gunfire in which the patrol killed four suspected Boko Haram terrorists, recovered two AK-47 rifles, four various sizes of solar energy panels, several types of drugs and five motorcycles,’’ Kukasheka said.
Meanwhile, two soldiers and 11 militants were killed in suspected Boko Haram attacks on two remote military posts in the Lake Chad Area, Chad’s government and military sources said.
Chad is at the forefront of a regional effort to counter the terror group which controls small enclaves in remote parts of neighbouring Nigeria’s North-East from where it launches cross-border raids.
A statement by the government said, “two communities were attacked at dawn,’’ referring to isolated villages near the lake where Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Cameroon meet.
“Three would-be suicide bombers were shot by soldiers as they approached a military base in the village of Bamou, although one militant was still able to detonate an explosive device,’’ the statement noted.
Boko Haram began attacking the remote, predominantly Muslim communities around the lake when the Army began reinforcing its presence there at the end of 2014.
A long-awaited 8,700-strong regional task force is set to begin joint raids on its remaining strongholds when the rainy season ends soon, a top UN official said late last month.
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