The
Nigerian army says it lost three soldiers after successfully clearing 13 Boko
Haram hideouts in the Sambisa Forest in one week.
Col.
Kinsley Samuel, Deputy Director Public Relations 7 Division of the Army,
disclosed this in a statement in Maiduguri on Sunday.
Samuel
said that six soldiers were wounded during the operation while dozens of the
insurgents where neutralised by troops.
“Troops
of Operation LAFIYA DOLE in conjunction with the Nigerian Air Force on
Operation DEEP PUNCH has within the past one week embarked on clearance
operations to dislodge Boko Haram terrorists from their camps,” he said.
He added that the troops
successfully cleared the terrorists’ hideouts at Talala, Ajigin, Mangzum,
Abagajiri, Kafa, Dusula, Buk, Malumti and Abulam among others.
“Furtherance of the clearance operations, the troops on Friday,
10th November 2017 while acting on credible information that the terrorists
were massing up at certain camps in fringes of Sambisa forest, advanced and
cleared the insurgents at Shyadawe-Angwan-Fulani, Shyadawe-Angwan-Bula-Musa and
Shyadawe.
“The troops captured two gun trucks, three motorcycles, many
bicycles and a laptop containing valuable information. They also located a
vandalised and unserviceable tank in one of the camps.
“The remains of the deceased soldiers have been evacuated while
those injured are receiving medical treatment at a military hospital,” said
Samuel.
NAN
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