The Friday morning terrorist
attack on Fori neighbourhood, near the famous Giwa Barracks, in
Maiduguri has been repelled, according to military authorities who also
claimed that the counter-attack resulted in “heavy human casualty on the
terrorists.”
Major General Chris
Olukolade, Director, Defence Information, said in a press statement
Friday afternoon from Abuja that the “pockets of terrorists” were
seeking to sack the army detention facility in Maiduguri with intention
to free their colleagues, “in a move to boost their depleted stock of
fighters.”
Premium Times reporter,
Ola Audu, who broke story of the attack Friday morning spoke of heavy
aerial bombardment from the air force an hour after the Boko Haram
terrorists had encircled the neighbourhood.
Some of the victims included those the Boko Haram terrorists came to
rescue, according to General Olukolade, who added that “Many of the
terrorists and their weapons have been captured [and that] four soldiers
were wounded and are being treated [while] hot pursuits by land and air
operations are ongoing along with cordon and search of surrounding
localities.”The defence spokesman suggested that this “terrorists attempt is in response to the intensity of attacks on their strongholds in camps at Talala, Monguzum, Sambisa forests, Gwoza, Mandara mountains as well as the general area of Lake Chad.”
He said the “camps have been destroyed and many insurgents killed.”
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