Troops kill nine terrorists in Katsina, Zamfara operations

Troops of Sector 2, Operation FANSAN YAMMA, person said they neutralised 9 terrorists, including 2 kingpins, and recovered 4 AK-47 rifles and 9 motorcycles crossed Katsina and Zamfara states.

Lieutenant Colonel Olaniyi Osoba, acting Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, 8 Division, Nigerian Army/Sector 2, Operation FANSAN YAMMA, said successful a connection that successful Katsina State, troops of Forward Operating Base Fudma neutralised 4 terrorists and recovered 2 AK-47 rifles with 2 magazines, immoderate quantities of ammunition, arsenic good arsenic 2 motorcycles, 7 mobile phones, and the sum of 1 100 and fifty-three 1000 naira (N153,000).

In a abstracted cognition successful Zamfara State betwixt May 2 and 3, 2026, troops astatine Forward Operating Base Bagega executed a high-stakes cognition successful Anka Local Government Area, resulting successful the neutralisation of 7 terrorists, including 2 notorious kingpins identified arsenic Anaruwa and Gomina.

Following reinforcement by assorted combat teams and supported by precision airstrikes from the aerial component, the troops repelled the battle arsenic a 2nd question of 8 terrorists o...