TROOPS NEUTRALISE SCORES OF TERRORISTS, RECOVER HEAVY WEAPONS IN SAMBISA
In sustained operations to clear the North East of terrorism, the troops of 21 Special Armoured Brigade of 7 Division/Sector 1 Operation HADIN KAI with support from the Air Component Command and Nigerian Army Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Command conducted deep operations into the Sambisa forest and made contact around Ukuba general areas, scores of terrorists were neutralized during the well planned and coordinated operation under the guidance of the Theatre Command.
During the operation, the gallant troops recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition believed to be the largest cache so far in the armoury of the insurgents. Items captured include several RPG 7 tubes, RPG bombs, Mercedes Benz truck, Motorcycles, motar tubes, shoulder grenade launchers, mortar bombs, 122 mm bombs, several PG42 grenades, large cache of ammunitions of different calibres, hand grenades, IED-making materials, AK-47s, SMGs, grenades rifles and several other hardwares.
Troops also encountered several IEDs enroute but were able to carefully detonate all without any casualties and have since continued to project force to other suspected terrorists locations in the ongoing onslaught.
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