Terrorists Suffer Loss as Soldiers Kill 3 in Offensive Operation

• Troops of the Nigerian Army have killed three terrorists in the Timbuktu triangle in the Lake Chad Region
• The insurgents were killed during an offensive operative carried out by the soldiers and Civilian Joint Task Force on the terrorists' hideout on Wednesday, February 28
• The troops recovered a machine gun, a cache of arms and ammunition and others during the operation

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Lake Chad - Soldiers with a hybrid force and element of the Civilian Joint Task Force killed three terrorists after invading the insurgents’ hideouts in the Timbuktu triangle in the Lake Chad Region.

The terrorists were killed during a fierce battle with the troops of the Nigerian army on Wednesday 28 February 2024.

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The Director of Army Public Relations, Maj. Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu disclosed this in a statement on Friday, March 1 via the Nigerian Army X handle, @HQNigerianArmy.

Nwachuku said the troops recovered a machine gun, a mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicle, a gun truck mounted with an anti-aircraft gun, and a cache of arms and ammunition during the operation.

He added that the terrorists engaged the troops immediately when they sighted them in a fierce battle but were overpowered.

“During the operation, insurgents attacked their own troops with a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, mortar, gun trucks and motorbikes, but fell under the overwhelming superior firepower of the troops, forcing them to abandon their stronghold, armaments and equipment in disarray.

“The operation proved to be a major setback to the insurgents, as the gallant troops neutralized three terrorists and recovered one MRAP, one gun truck, one Dushka Machine Gun, one AK 47 Rifle and one locally fabricated gun. Troops also captured one Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG) Bomb, 273 rounds of 7.62mm Special ammunition, one Pumping machine, 65 Dushka links, 48 General Purpose Machine Gun links and three motorbikes.”

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Nigerian army kills notorious terrorist leader

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that troops shot dead a notorious terrorist leader, Boderi Isyaku, during a gun duel between troops and the bandits around the Bada/Riyawa general areas of Chikun and Igabi LGA of Kaduna state.

it was Boderi who plotted and executed the 11th March 2021 abduction of 39 students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, Igabi LGA.

The terrorist leader was also the mastermind of the attack on the Afaka campus of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Igabi LGA, where two officers were killed and another abducted.

Source: Legit.ng