Details have emerged on how Military Join Task Force killed over 60 insurgents in a gun battle at Lamba Forest on the border between Jigawa and Bauchi states.
LEADERSHIP had exclusively reported yesterday that the military had raided the Lamba Forest on Monday and killed over 60 insurgents suspected to be members of Boko Haram sect.
The military personnel were said to have engaged in a shootout with insurgents suspected to be members of Boko Haram after they planted a road-side bomb which exploded with one of the JTF Hilux killing three military while six others sustained in juries last Monday.
The JTF, in its campaign known as ‘Operation Salama,’ was said to have bombarded the forest during the operation which consequently led a mass killing of the insurgents.
Confirming the story, the director press to the Jigawa State governor, Malam Umar Kiyar, said the military commander who led the operation told the state governor that over 60 copses of the insurgents were found scattered in the forest after the battle.
Malam Kiyari added that the military officers had tightened up security and intensified search in the forest to completely flush out the insurgents from the area.
