Three suspected terrorists who planted the explosive and hid themselves had been fished out and neutralised. The Nigerian Army has confirmed that it lost four soldiers in Borno on Thursday when their patrol vehicle ran into a bomb trap on the road between Kangarwa and Alagarno village. Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, Army Spokesman, confirmed the incident in a statement on Friday, while giving update on troops’ clearance operations in the North-East between Tuesday and Thursday. He disclosed that three other soldiers sustained various degrees of injuries, while the patrol vehicle was completely damaged by the booby trap. The army spokesman, however, said three suspected terrorists who planted the explosive and hid themselves had been fished out and neutralised. Usman added that apart from clearance operations, troops stationed at Banki in Borno rendered humanitarian assistance to over 887 Nigerian refugees who returned from Cameroon since Tuesday. He said the troops, also on ...
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