the Acting Director Army Public Relations, in the early hours of yesterday, some elements of Boko Haram terrorists in 5 gun trucks, motorcycles
and 2 Golf cars laden with IEDs from Sambisa forest axis
attempted an attack
on 121 Task Force Battalion at Pulka.
The ever alert and vigilant troops rose
to the occasion and successfully repelled
the attack and killed
7 Boko Haram terrorists, wounded
several others and
recovered 4 AK-47 rifles, 3 AK-47 rifle magazine and 92 rounds of 7.62mm
(NATO) belt ammunition. We wish
to state that our troops are hale and
hearty In a related
development, troops
of 3 Battalion caught
a suspected Boko Haram terrorists’ spy
near the Battalion Headquarters at Gamboru Ngala. On
interrogation, he confessed that he
was sent to spy on
the troops from Wulge. Consequent upon this the troops organized a fighting patrol comprising elements of Army Headquarters Strike Group and Civilian JTF to Wulge and
Walamari.
The troops had encounter with Boko
Haram terrorists in which they killed 27 of them, recovered 5 motorcycles and 8
bicycles. They also cleared 12 terrorists’
camps and recovered
1 AK-47 rifles as well
as 1 Dane gun. The
troops also rescued
455 persons and escorted them to
Gamboru IDPs camp.
Unfortunately, we lost one of the Civilian JTF.
Nevertheless,the troops’ morale remains very high.
Similarly, troops of 103 Battalion, yesterday evening ambushed Boko
Haram terrorists at
Mairimri village crossing point in which they killed quite a number of
terrorists, recovered
15 bicycles and foodstuffs. Further
confirmatory reconnaissance would be conducted to further exploit the situation.
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