Troops Kill Two Terrorists, Arrest 11 Others After ‘Fierce Gunfight’ • Channels Television

 

Troops on Operation Lafiya Dole have killed two suspected members of the Boko Haram terrorist group after a tough gunfight in Borno State.

The Nigerian Army confirmed this in a statement on Friday by the Deputy Director of Public Relations, Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole, Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu.

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They recorded the feat on Thursday after they overran terrorist hideouts in Bukar Maryam and Abaganaram villages of the state in north-east Nigeria.

The soldiers, who were on a joint counter-insurgency operation with Cameroonian Defence Forces and the Civilian Joint Task Force in the northern hinterlands of Borno, also arrested other insurgents.

“The gallant troops overpowered the insurgents, killing two of them and capturing 11 men after a fierce firefight, during an operation to clear the surrounding villages of fleeing Boko Haram…