The Nigerian Army troops have killed five Boko Haram insurgents in the ongoing clearance operation in Sambisa Forest.
This was disclosed by the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole, Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, on Wednesday in Maiduguri,
Nwachuku said the troops also cleared various enclaves of the insurgents adding that troops under Operation DEEP PUNCH II had cleared insurgents’ hideouts at Agapulawa; Amuda, Nyawa and Attagara in Sambisa Forest.
He said troops killed the five insurgents at Tchikide and Chinene in the Lake Chad region.
Nwachukwu said that two soldiers were killed and two others wounded when an insurgents’ Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) vehicle hit their military vehicle.
He said that the wounded soldiers were evacuated to a military medical facility for treatment.
“In continuation of the “On Tuesday 28, February, 2018; troops successfully cleared and dismantled insurgents’ camps at Agapulawa, Amuda, Nyawa and Attagara in the remaining parts of Sambisa Forest.
“The clearance operations progressed further into other identified insurgents’ camps around Tchikide and Chinene, where the troops ferociously engaged and cleared pockets of resistance by the insurgents and killed five of them,” he said.
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