Troops ambush Boko Haram, recovers hard drugs, anti-aircraft gun, GPMGs [PHOTOS]

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Troops ambush Boko Haram, recovers hard drugs, anti-aircraft gun, GPMGs [PHOTOS]

Following reliable information about movement of remnants of suspected Boko Haram terrorists, troops of 118 Task Force Battalion, 7 Brigade, la!d a successful ambush for Boko Haram terrorists, Thursday morning.

The troops la!d the ambush about 3 kilometres away from Goneri town, South West of Kukawa Local Government Area, where they encountered unsuspecting terrorists in 2 gun trucks and on motorcycles and engaged them.

Army spokesman, Col. Sani Usman, in a statement said, “many terrorists escaped with gun shot wounds abandoning 1 Buffalo Land Cruiser gun truck mounted with an Anti-Aircraft gun, 1,600 rounds of 12.7mm Armour Piercing Incendiary (API) ammunitions, 563 rounds of 7.62mm (NATO) ammunition for General Purpose Machine Guns and 57 rounds of 7.62mm (Special) ammunition.

“The troops further recovered 1 motorcycle, 7 jerry cans of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and Automotive Gasoline
Oil (AGO), a pair of Nigerien Army uniform, 2 Cameroonian telecommunication service providers SIM cards, as well as a pair of the Boko Haram terrorists Special Forces uniform.
“They also recovered 1 Samsung Galaxy Tablet and assorted drugs and such as Climax Oxytocin, Tetracyclic HC1 Ointment, Drips and Springe, amongst others”.

The statement added that consolidating on that success, troops were further exploiting the situation, while troops of 157 Task Force Battalion were blocking likely escape routes of remnants of the terrorists in Mile 90, Yoyo, Barwati and Kekeno villages.