About 300 Boko Haram/Islamic State of the West African Province (ISWAP) fighters in the fringes of North East Lake Chad have been killed by security forces.
Chief of Military Public Information Officer HQ MNJTF N’Djamena, Lieutenant Colonel Kamarudeen Adegoke disclosed this in a statement in Maiduguri, on Saturday, saying the terrorists were eliminated in 30 separate encounters.
Adegoke, quoted the Force Commander, Abdul Khalifa, saying at an appraisal meeting with all Commanders of the MNJTF drawn from all sectors that the terrorists were killed in several operations.
Khalifa said the meeting was appraising the operations preparatory for the next decisive stage, adding it has discovered the reliance on the usage of Improvised Explosive Devices, IED, by the insurgents.
He said the MNJTF would evolve means to deal with them, adding that “about four IED making factories were destroyed in the course of the operations so far.”
