- By Halimah Olamide
One Army Lieutenant has been killed while some other soldiers were injured in Buratai Buni-Gadi area of Borno State.
The Defence Headquarters which confirmed the development on Sunday. This was just as about six members of the terror gang were killed by troops.
The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, made this known in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
Buba said that while an army Lieutenant died in the ambush, four other personnel, who sustained injuries in action, were receiving treatment.
He, however, said the troops’ reinforcement pursued the terrorist to their hideout within the Timbuktu Triangle and neutralised six of them.
According to him, troops recovered five AK 47 rifles and 103 rounds of the 7.62mm special ammunition.
“The remaining terrorist ran in disarray and the troops are in hunt of the remnant terrorist that fled the firefigt,” he said.