Troops pound terrorist, recover arms in Kogi forest ambush

Troops of the Nigerian Army’s 12 Brigade, operating nether ”Operation Tiger Paw II”, neutralised a suspected violent and recovered a important cache of arms and instrumentality successful a coordinated ambush successful the Adankolo Forest Reserve, Lokoja Local Government Area.

This is contained successful a connection by the Brigade’s spokesperson Lt. Hassan Abdullahi, connected Monday successful Lokoja.

The operation, the service said,  is portion of sustained efforts to unafraid large routes successful Kogi State, pursuing akin operations against transgression elements adjacent Obajana and the Agbaja forest.

”Acting connected credible quality connected the question of suspected terrorists, soldiers from the 12 Brigade Quick Response Group laid successful hold astatine a known bandit crossing constituent wrong the wood reserve.

”On contact, the troops engaged the radical successful a fierce gunfight, neutralizing 1 violent portion others escaped into the bush with gunshot wounds,” it stated.

It added that a mop-up of the country led to the betterment of important weapons and logistics.

According to the army, items recovered see 2 AK-47 rifles, 1 locally fabricated pistol, six magazines, and 145 rounds of 7.62mm peculiar ammunition.

Arms and different items recovered from terrorists by Troops of 12 Brigade Nigerian Army connected Sunday successful Adankolo forest, Lokoja.

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Other materials seized, the service said, are 1 camouflage b...