The Nigerian Army has killed 817 terrorists and captured over 1 thousand in 3 months The National Security Headquarters has said that the c...
The Nigerian Army has killed 817 terrorists and captured over 1 thousand in 3 months
The National Security Headquarters has said that the country's forces have killed 817 terrorists and arrested 1,326 criminals and rescued 721 hostages in various attacks across the country in the past three months. .
The Director of Media Relations of the Nigerian Defense Headquarters, Major General Edward Buba, stated this while talking to the press on Thursday in Abuja, where he clarified the activities of the military across the country.
Buba said those arrested include 42 kidnappers, 231 terrorists, 33 armed robbers, 80 cattle rustlers, 325 bandits.
Other people who were arrested by the security forces include 27 train thieves, 73 weapons smugglers and 191 suspected oil thieves.
Northeast Nigeria
The Public Relations Officer Labaran added that 4,560 terrorists and their families surrendered to the military in the North Eastern region of Nigeria within the three months.
While the army recovered 501 weapons, 3,577 animals, 3,269 types of ammunition and 674 other tools all within the term.
Major General Edward Buba said, in the North East region, the forces of Operation Hadin-kai killed 240 terrorists and arrested 276 and their collaborators and rescued 147 hostages, while and 4,560 fighters and their families surrendered to the army.
He said, the army also recovered 169 types of weapons, 1,195 types of ammunition and 199 other equipment, including 57 AK47 rifles, one GPMG, two HK21 rifles, one FN rifle, one G3 rifle and etc.
North Central
In the North Central region, Buba said that Operation Safe Haven forces killed 94 terrorists, arrested 477 suspects and rescued 76 hostages, and recovered various types of weapons. up to 82 and 760 ammunition.
He said the soldiers of Operation Whirl Stroke killed 83 terrorists, arrested 104 suspects, rescued 18 hostages, and recovered 37 weapons, 68 types of ammunition and 127 products.
North West
In the North West region, Buba said that the forces of Operation Hadarin Daji managed to kill 248 terrorists, arrested 116 suspected terrorists, and freed 359 hostages. and they recovered a total of 67 dangerous weapons, 926 ammunitions and 160 other items of heinous crimes.
Southern Region of Nigeria
In the South-South, he said the Operation Delta Safe forces killed 69 militants, arrested 191 oil thieves and their collaborators and rescued 12 hostages.
Baba said, the soldiers also seized 6.6 million liters of stolen crude oil, 3.5 million liters of diesel, 188,650 liters of kerosene and 65,600 liters of petrol.
He said, the army also found and destroyed 249 boats, 28 tugboats, and three boats and recovered 51 types of weapons.
In the South East region, the spokesman of the army said that the forces of Operation UDO KA killed 80 fighters and arrested some criminals suspected of being IPOB fighters and their allies of ESN 162 and freed 109 hostages.
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