Troops repel cross-border terror attack, neutralise 12 terrorists in Borno

Troops of the Joint Task Force, North East, engaged successful Operation HADIN KAI, person thwarted a cross-border battle by suspected ISWAP/Boko Haram militants, neutralizing 12 combatants during a confrontation successful the Kirawa portion of Borno State.

Zagazola Makama, a information expert and counter-insurgency specializer successful the Lake Chad area, revealed this accusation successful a station connected his X account.

According to information sources, the lawsuit transpired astir 11:00 p.m. connected May 22, amidst the ongoing Operation Desert Sanity V and Siege Operations.

The sources indicated that the terrorists attempted to breach the troops’ presumption from the Cameroon broadside but were detected arsenic they approached and engaged with superior firepower.

The troops, reported to beryllium connected precocious alert, promptly reacted to the incursion, compelling the attackers to retreat successful disarray backmost into Cameroon, with respective of the militants reportedly suffering gunshot wounds.

Additionally, the sources mentioned that the cognition was bolstered by intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, ISR, assets, on with aerial enactment and coordi...