Pockets of terrorists apparently in a move to boost their depleted stock of fighters this morning, March 14, 2014 attacked a military location in Maiduguri with a view to freeing their colleagues who are being held in detention, the defence headquarters say.
A statement from the director defence information, Major General AC Olukolade, states that the attack was successfully repelled by the military leaving many terrorists dead and others severely wounded. Some of the victims of the terrorists’ fire in their efforts to break into the detention facility, included those they came to rescue.
The military has said that many of the terrorists and their weapons have been captured, and “hot pursuits by land and air operations are ongoing along with cordon and search of surrounding localities.”
Four soldiers were wounded in the operation and are being treated.
The University of Maiduguri was not attacked as reported by the media, the military has said. Though the effect of firing from the encounter could be noticed in surrounding facilities in Maiduguri.
Olukolade said: “It is believed that this terrorists attempt is in response to the intensity of attacks on their strongholds in camps at Talala, Monguzum, Sambisa forests, Gwoza, Mandara mountains as well as the general area of Lake Chad. The camps have been destroyed and many insurgents killed.”
