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Nigerian Troops Maintain Air and Land Patrols to secure Cleared Towns

Admin November 20, 2014

militaryNigerian troops are currently conducting aggressive patrols in and around Garkida in Adamawa State after clearing the town of terrorists Thursday. A highly coordinated Air Force operation is backing the troop’s movement and operations in the mission area.

Similar air and land patrols along with mop up operations are being conducted in places such as Gombi, Pella, Hong, Fachi and Duma localities where terrorists have been dislodged as troops continue to advance in their pursuit.

Meanwhile more heavy weapons such as Anti-Aircraft Guns, General Purpose Machine Guns, IED materials, Rocket Propel Launchers as well as rifles and items such as vehicles, motorcycles are being recovered from the fleeing terrorists. The content of other items such as projector, DVD players, laptop computers, mobile phone handsets, memory cards and flash drives recovered from the terrorists are presently being analysed for vital information.

The morale of troops is reported high as they continue on the offensive. The bodies of 2 soldiers who died in one of the encounters have been recovered while the 5 wounded including a Brigade Commander are presently receiving treatment.

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