Thursday, August 7

Nigerian Soldiers Recapture Damboa Town From Boko Haram



Soldiers of the 25 Task Battalion yesterday staged a special operation that led to the recapture of the seized Danboa  town in Borno..

The 25 Task Battalion was recently deployed to specially tackle the insurgents and recapture Damboa weeks after the insurgents had attacked the military base there, killed its commander and about a dozen other security personnel, as well as sacked the residents.

LEADERSHIP was reliably informed by a top security person in Maiduguri that the task force brigade “has today recaptured Damboa and sent some of the insurgents fleeing while some other members of the Boko Haram died in the hours of shootout”.

According to the source, the operation was facilitated by the Nigeria Air Force Alpha-Jet and the ground troop artillery.

It was also gathered that more troops are being deployed into the hinterlands of Damboa for clearing patrol.

Damboa was last month sacked and over 5,000 residents of the agrarian town were forced to flee to Gombe and Biu towns where they are presently being camped.

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