The Director of Defence Information, Maj. Gen Chris Olukolade, has said
that 13 insurgents were killed in a military raid on makeshift
terrorists camp located between Borno and Adamawa states on Friday.
Olukolade said in an electronic mail on Friday that the special forces
also arrested some of the insurgents who escaped the raid in Maiduguri
and its environs.
He did not give the exact number of insurgents arrested in the raid.
Olukolade said calm had returned to Shuwa community, which was attacked
by the insurgents on Thursday after the confusion and panic in the
community when the people mistook the convoy of troops in pursuit of the
terrorists for the insurgents.
He said the community members became panicky when they saw the column of
military trucks because they mistook them for insurgents on a mission
for another attack.
Olukolade said the confusion sparked the rumour that the Governor of
Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, was attacked while visiting the community.
He said, “The troops were deployed to block a discovered entry and exit point of terrorists into the country through the state.”
