The combined troops of 302 Artillery and 14 Field Engineer Regiments of the Nigerian Army conducting operations against terrorists have captured two locally made artillery projectile launchers from fighters of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network (ESN), its armed affiliate.
Brig Gen Onyema Nwachukwu, Director, Army Public Relations, said in a statement that artillery weapons, armed with projectiles, were seized alongside other items as troops swooped on the dissident fighters, who fled in disarray, deserting their camp upon sighting the troops' advancement. According to the statement, a member of the dissident group was arrested, and several items, including 48 rounds of 7.
'Troops recovered several items from the camp, including one crude oil cooking oven, three reservoirs, several connecting hoses and pipes, three mobile phones, one power-generating set, three pumping machines, one CCTV camera mounted on a treetop, substances suspected to be cannabis, and some fetish objects,” Nwachukwu said.
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