Troops launch offensive, destroy IEDs, clear terrorist-prone communities in Borno

Troops of Operation HADIN KAI person destroyed 2 improvised explosive devices, IEDs, and conducted extended clearance operations crossed parts of Borno State arsenic portion of ongoing bedewed play offensives aimed astatine denying Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists state of movement.

Security expert and counter-insurgency adept successful the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, disclosed the improvement successful a station shared via his X handle.

According to Makama, the coordinated operations were carried retired connected Monday, July 21, nether Operation DESERT SANITY V by troops of Sector 2 successful collaboration with unpaid forces.

Makama quoted quality sources arsenic saying that troops of the 19 Battalion (Mechanised) and 25 Brigade Garrison, comprising 134 soldiers supported by 100 unpaid fighters, mounted connected 4 Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, six weapon trucks, 3 troop-carrying vehicles, 1 VP1 conveyance and 17 motorcycles, carried retired a clearance cognition on the Damboa–Bulabulin–Kumala Main Supply Route and adjoining communities.

During the operation, troops swept the Kumala and Bulabulin wide a...