TROOPS of 21-Armoured Brigade, Bama, Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), have neutralised over a dozen Boko Haram terrorists in the Kumshe-Banki axis of Borno State.
The insurgents were killed in yesterday’s failed ambush along the 54-kilometre Bama-Banki road.
A counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, confirmed, yesterday, in Maiduguri that the troops’ patrol operations along the road paid off by killing about two dozens of terrorists.
On the foiled ambush, he said: “The terrorists detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and followed with continuous gunshots,” adding that the gallant soldiers responded by repelling the insurgents to flee with gunshot wounds.
He, noted that the troops did not incur many casualties, as few soldiers sustained wounds with the destruction of a military patrol vehicle.
