The Nigerian troops in an earling attack on Tuesday resisted repelled attacks by fleeing Boko Haram terrorists on military locations at Pulka and Bitta in the fringes of Sambisa forest.
A statement on Tuesday by the Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, disclosed that troops of 26 and 28 Task Force Brigades carried out the resistance.
Usman revealed that troops of 114 Task Force Battalion came under three-pronged attack by Boko Haram terrorists fanning out of Sambisa forest from Damboa, Tokumbere and Pulka axis, but at the end, two Boko Haram insurgents paid for their atrocities with their lives while several others sustained gunshot injuries.
He noted that the ever ready and vigilant troops rose to the occasion by repelling the attacks and killing all the 16 attackers and captured one of them alive during the exploitation.
“The gallant troops also recovered 11 AK-47 rifles, 3 General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMGs), 1 Browning Machine Gun (BMG) and 2 Toyota Hilux vehicles. Others are a 60mm Mortar tube, 7 boxes of 12.7mm ammunition and 1 belt of 12.7mm ammunition,” he said in the statement.
The Army spokesman further said “there were no casualties on our own troops except for three soldiers that sustained minor injuries.”
He maintained that the “troops remained on maximum alert and are equally busy consolidating and continuing with their clearance operations with high morale.”
