NewsTop Boko Haram Commander, Scores Killed In Offensive Military Operation

Top Boko Haram Commander, Scores Killed In Offensive Military Operation

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May 15, (THEWILL) – Scores of terrorists, including the Commander of Boko Haram in Sambisa forest, Abubakar Sarki, have been killed by the Nigerian Army troops of North East Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK).

Sources said the troops recorded the feat on Saturday, during an offensive coordinated operation, led by the General Officer Commanding 7 Division, Nigerian Army and Commander, Sector 1 North East, OPHK, Maj Gen Waidi Shaibu, at Yuwe location, within the Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State.

The Army was said to have deployed a massive artillery gun after sighting 8 moving convoys conveying Abubakar Sarki and unconfirmed numbers of fighters in devastating hits.

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The source said that based on intelligence information, Abubakar Sarki and his team were heading toward Abu-Ubaida’s camp to engage its rival fighters from the Islamic State of the West African Province (ISWAP), in a battle of supremacy.

Counter Intelligence expert with knowledge of terrorists activities in Lake Chad, Zagazola Makama, confirmed the artillery bombing of the Boko Haram Commander’s convoy.

“A ground assessment confirmed that 3 guntrucks with all its occupants were completely destroyed, while the remaining 5 vehicles including Abubakar Sarki escaped”, the source said, adding that the terrorists, however, aborted the mission and evacuated the dead and wounded fighters towards the axis between Pulka and Banki.

The sources said that the troops were mandated to go after the fleeing terrorists and eliminate them completely.

The infighting between the two terrorists groups had intensified with the ISWAP hunting Boko Haram during the day, while the Boko Haram are coordinating reprisal attacks at night because of their knowledge of the terrain.

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