17 Soldiers Killed, Several Abducted in Battle with Boko Haram
Not less than 17 soldiers were killed in confrontations between the military and Boko Haram insurgents along Bama-Gwoza road weekend.
The insurgents were said to have attacked Firgi, 20 kilometres north of Pulka along the road from Gwoza to Bama on Friday night.The insurgents, whose number of casualties could not be ascertained, were said to have gotten some military retreating. An impeccable source told our reporter that during the crossfire around 10pm of 17 January, 2020 on Firgi, 20km north of Pulka along the road to Bama, “13 government forces members were killed with four of their vehicles taken away.”They were said to have attacked a military company at Banki junction on Bama-Gwoza road at 10 pm.The casualties on the side of the military was four with the record from the insurgents not known.
Efforts to get confirmation from the military was not successful as at the time of filing this report as text messages to both Col. Sagir Musa, Army spokesman and Col. Isa Ado, spokesman of the military joint task force on counter insurgency in the Northeast were not responded to.
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