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More than 23 extremist militants, including a prominent
commander of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), were
killed in counterterrorism operations by the Nigerian military in
the country’s northeast region in the past three weeks, an official
said Thursday, Trend reports citing Xinhua.
The troops’ operations also forced 1,159 militants to surrender
and led to the rescue of 619 abducted victims within the region
during the period, Bernard Onyeuko, the spokesman for the military,
told reporters in Abuja, the Nigerian capital.
Onyeuko said the operations were conducted across Borno and
Taraba states, with “impressive successes.”
According to him, the surrendered terrorists and their family
members comprising 627 children, 367 women and 164 men had been
profiled and handed over to the appropriate authority.
The neutralized ISWAP commander, identified as Abubakar
Dan-Buduma, and other militants had a gunfight with the troops in
the Marte local government area of Borno, the military official
said, declining to give details about the actual date of the
anti-terror operation.
He said a notorious ISWAP informant and logistics supplier
identified as Mallam Abba Lawan was also arrested in Auno, a town
in the Konduga local government area of Borno, during the
period.
The counterterrorism operations led to the destruction of
militants’ enclaves and their central workshop where vehicles are
fabricated for vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices, he
added.
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