We’ve 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.