No fewer than110 Boko Haram insurgents were, at the
weekend, killed in a gun battle in Damboa, the headquarters of Damboa local
government area of Borno State in an attack repelled by men of the 7 Division,
Nigerian Army.
Damboa is
about 95 kilometers from Maiduguri, the state capital, and was the first local
government area captured by insurgents in June this year before it was
recaptured by troops in July.
The
killing of the terrorists came barely 24 hours after troops in support of Civilian
JTF killed over 75 insurgents at Dogonwire while attempting to repair the
vandalized power transmission line along Damboa- Maiduguri Road since July this
year as well as the combing of Tashan Alade and other communities of Hawul
local government Area taken over by insurgents.
A
security source, who did not want his name in print, told our correspondent
that the insurgents- who came mostly in black uniform resembling that of
theNigeria Police, used cattle as their shield, but the troops and the
vigilante youth quickly realised their trick and killed all of them.
“We
rounded them up and killed them as there was no escaping route for them. We
killed over 100 of them, while their vehicles and motorcycles were destroyed”,
the source said.
A
resident of the area, Alhaji Mohammed Bulama, said,” The incident occurred at
about 1:35 pm when we are about to start jumat prayer (Friday congregational
prayer) when we started hearing gunshots. We quickly went back to our houses
leaving the vigilantes and soldiers behind.”
When
contacted, Defence Spokesman, Major General Chris Olukolade, confirmed the
incident but insisted that the exact casualty figures were still being
ascertained.
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