The Nigerian Army has lost an officer and three soldiers in Borno on
Thursday when their patrol vehicle encountered IED buried on the road between
Kangarwa and Alagarno village.
According to Pulseng
The Army Spokesman, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, confirmed the
incident in a statement on Friday, while giving update on troops’ clearance
operations in the North-East between Tuesday and Thursday.
He said three other soldiers sustained various degrees of
injuries, while the patrol vehicle was completely damaged.
Usman, however, said three suspected terrorists who planted the
explosive and hid themselves had been fished out and neutralised.
The army spokesman added that apart from clearance
operations, troops stationed at Banki in Borno rendered humanitarian assistance
to over 887 Nigerian refugees who returned from Cameroon
since Tuesday.
He said the troops, also on Thursday, handed over Miss Jada
Hachaba, who was abducted by the terrorists to her mother at Gulak in Adamawa.
The army spokesman explained that Hachaba escaped from the
terrorists’ captivity, adding that she was handed over in the presence of the
District Head of Gulak.
At Buni Yadi in Yobe, Usman said that troops in the period
under review discovered a 122mm D30 unexploded ordinance inside an uncompleted
building at the Federal Low Cost Housing Estate.
He said the Explosive Ordinance Team was drafted into the
scene to safely detonated the explosive.
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