No less than 50 Boko Haram terrorists had been killed on Tuesday and 7 members of Nigeria’s infrastructure safety forces went lacking after an ambush on a convoy guarding the nation’s energy grid services, a spokesman mentioned.
Boko Haram, which has waged a 15-year insurgency primarily within the northeast, has been weakened by the navy and inside preventing however stays a risk because it carries out lethal assaults on civilians and authorities targets.
Babawale Afolabi, spokesman for the Nigerian Civil Protection Corps, a authorities company set as much as shield infrastructure, mentioned the safety brokers had been ambushed by about 200 Boko Haram terrorists throughout the patrol mission.
Afolabi mentioned greater than 50 terrorists had been killed within the preventing, however seven officers had been lacking, including that efforts had been being made to seek out them within the bush. He mentioned “another” members of the safety forces had been injured.
Though Boko Haram operates primarily within the northeast, Nigerian authorities say the group has cells within the largely Muslim state of Niger, the place they’ve beforehand carried out assaults in opposition to navy personnel and civilians.
In a separate assault within the northeastern state of Borno, a navy spokesman mentioned 5 troopers had been killed by suspected terrorists final Saturday.
