We have recaptured 11 towns, killed 300 insurgents-DHQ.

The Director of Defence Information, Maj.
Gen. Chris Olukolade, has said that troops of
the Nigerian Army and personnel of the Air
Force have killed over 300 fighters of the
Boko Haram sect.
Olukolade said in a statement on Wednesday
that the insurgents were killed during a
combined operation of the Air Force and
ground forces put in place to liberate 11
communities captured by the Boko Haram
sect.
According to him, the communities liberated
by the troops are Monguno, Gabchari, Abba
Jabari, Gajigana, Gajiram, Damakar,
Kumaliwa, Bosso Wanti, Jeram and
Kabrisungul.
He said that troops had commenced a cordon
and search operation in the areas involved in
the latest operation.
He stated further that some of the terrorists
and their weapons were captured by the
troops.
Olukolade also said that the military captured
“five different types of armoured fighting
vehicles, an anti-aircraft gun, about 50 cases
of packed bombs and eight different types of
machine guns, five rocket-propelled grenade,
49 boxes of various types and calibres of
ammunition, as well as 300 motorcycles
destroyed in the fighting.
He added that “a total of six Hilux vehicles
including those mounted with anti-aircraft
guns were also destroyed.’
The Defence spokesman said that two
soldiers lost their lives while ten others were
wounded in the encounter with the terrorists.
Olukolade said that various phases of highly
coordinated combined operation involving the
Air Force and ground forces were ongoing in
the mission area within and outside the
country.
Meanwhile, about 30 civilians were killed
when an unidentified airplane dropped a
bomb on a Nigerian border village, military
sources based nearby in Niger said on
Wednesday.
“We don’t know whose plane it was. We
understand that the victims are residents who
were gathered for a ceremony but who were
mistaken for terrorists,” said a military source
based in the town of Bosso in Niger.
He added, “Around 30 people perished.”

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