Troops neutralize terrorists in Sokoto forest

Troops of the Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Special Intervention Battalion 7 successful conjunction with 8 Division Strike Team, operating nether the Joint Task Force North West Operation FANSAN YAMMA, person eliminated terrorists astatine Kadam Forest

In a statement, Lieutenant Colonel Olaniyi Osoba, Acting Deputy Director, Army Public Relations 8 Division, Nigerian Army / Sector 2 Operation FANSAN YAMMA said the occurrence followed a credible quality and decisive engagement with a notorious violent web affiliated with Lakurawa Terrorists successful Tangaza Local Government Area, Sokoto State.

According to the statement, quality revealed that implicit 100 terrorists had converged heavy wrong Kadam Forest to coordinate attacks and kidnapping connected section communities and transport their kidnapped victims to their strongholds.

However, luck ran against them arsenic troops acting swiftly, mobilised to intercepted them.

The ensuing firefight was fierce and sustained. When the terrorists attempted a rear-flanking manoeuvre, troops responded with superior firepower, efficaciously neutralising the menace and maintaining tactical dominance passim the engagement.

Following the ace power, troops neutralised 3 terrorists, with respective others believed to person sustained gunshot wounds during their escape.

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