Troops Kill 11 ISWAP Terrorists, Destroy Camps In Sambisa Forest

Troops of Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), in collaboration with Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) and Hybrid forces have killed 11 suspected Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists in an extreme intrusion into the insurgents’ enclaves in Sambisa Forest in Borno State.

The terrorists met their waterloo during the intelligence led sustained offensive which was conducted between May 31 and ended on June 4, 2023 in the terrorists’ hideouts within the axis of Damboa and Chibok local government areas.

Intelligence sources close to a counter-insurgency expert and security analyst Zagazola Makama, in the Lake Chad region, said the troops stormed and cleared some of the terrorists’ hideouts in Bale, Tirke, Mandari, Molgoi, Bego, Yarwa, Ngurna.

The sources said that some weapons, ammunition and other logistics were recovered during the  joint military operations.