The Joint Task Force in Maiduguri,
Borno State, Tuesday, killed a kingpin of extremist Islamist sect, Boko Haram,
and three of his lieutenants.
Spokeman of the JTF in the state, Lieutenant
Colonel Sagir Musa, disclosed that the slain commander who allegedly came from
Kano, was behind the recent bomb blasts and attacks on JTF patrol vehicles at
the Post Office Areas and Gambouru wards of Maiduguri, where several people,
soldiers and policemen were either killed or injured. Recovered from the
slain militants were three AK 47 rifles and magazines, two Dane guns, 36 rounds
of ammunition, two bows and 18 arrows, and assorted materials for
making Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).
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