The Joint
Task Force (JTF) in Borno, yesterday said it killed 17 suspected members of the
Boko Haram sect and lost a soldier during gun battle at the sect’s suspected
camps where it recovered some arms, barely a week after a section of the sect
declared ceasefire.
Spokesman
of the task force, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa in a statement yesterday, said
the JTF, with the support of the Nigerian Air Force Helicopter Gunship,
conducted two special operations on suspected Boko Haram camps at Sambisa, Bama
Local Government area and Farin-Ruwa Forest, south west/east of Damboa Local
Government, killing no fewer than 17 gunmen suspected to be of Boko Haram sect.
