Jutha Gupah, Maiduguri
September 26, 2022.
Troops of 27 Task Force Battalion, Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) have neutralized unspecified number of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists at Wulle village in Sasawa Forest of Yobe state.
The insurgents were killed on Saturday, while converging in the village in gun trucks and motorcycles to launch an attack on the nearest military post.
Confirming the incident yesterday (Monday), in Maiduguri, a counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, disclosed that acting on intelligence, the troops fired several artillery at the terrorists.
According to him, the superior fire power of soldiers, resulted to the killing of dozens of terrorists in their village hideout of forest.
He added that the surviving insurgents, however, returned to the village on six motorcycles to evacuate bodies of their colleagues for burial on Sunday.
In Borno state, ISWAP however killed a Civilian JTF and injured four others in Benisheikh Township, the headquarters of Kaga Council in the state.
Benisheikh, 72 kilometres west of Maiduguri, was severally attacked by Boko Haram between 2014 and 2016, torching health centres, schools and houses.
Makama told The Guardian that the terrorists sneaked into the town on motorcycles at in the early hours of Sunday.
Besides the killing of the Civilian JTF, he added that the terrorists engaged security personnel in fierce gun battle that lasted for over an hour.
He added that the terrorists overpowered the security men, killing one of them and set four patrol vehicles ablaze.
“The insurgents also retreated and fled on sighting a reinforcement team of the Nigerian Army from the Ngamdu military formation.
According to him, there was an alarm raised on the terrorists’ planned attacks on soft targets across the country between September and October, 2022.
He noted that already, they had already claimed attacks in Delta, Kogi and Kano states in the last two weeks.
