At least 20 Boko Haram fighters were killed in a fierce battle on Thursday in the Sambisa forest enclave of the sect after federal troops launched a land and aerial attack on their camps, security sources said.
This information was obtained after security forces sanctioned the restoration of grounded GSM networks on Friday.
A
top security official told that the grounded GSM networks were part of
the military strategy to slow down the communication of the Boko Haram
who are spread in camps in the forest of Sambisa, Mafa, Wulgo and
Kirenowa axis of Borno state. He said Friday’s restoration of networks
was “for some few hours’.
“So far so good, there
has been positive progress in the ongoing operation in Sambisa, and we
are not pulling out until we are done with them,” the source said.
“After
a surprise raid, yesterday (Thursday), at least 20 of the terrorists
were gunned down by our troops and several are running around the jungle
with serious injuries.”
Sambisa, a forest that
spreads over a distance of 300sq km from Damboa up to Gwoza, Bama and
the Cameroon border, has been a hideout and training camp of the Boko
Haram. It was first discovered early this year when a military raid was
launched there.
Apart from the afternoon blast of
Wednesday that left two persons dead in the Post Office Central area of
Maiduguri, the city has so far enjoyed over 48 hours of calm without a
sound of gunshot since the declaration of State of emergency.
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