Boko Haram terrorists suffer heavy losses in Pulka

A troop operation, Hadin Kai, have inflicted heavy casualties on Boko Haram and Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in an ambush at the Pulka general area in Borno state.

The director of army public relations, brig.-gen. Onyema Nwachukwu confirmed the development.

Nwachukwu said the operation was conducted by troops deployed at 192 battalion Forward Operations Base (FOB) on Wednesday.

Nwachukwu added that the operation was an intelligence-driven conducted in conjunction with members of the civilian joint task force and local vigilantes.

According to Nwachukwu, four terrorists were neutralised and large cache of arms was recovered in an area suspected to be the terrorists’ crossing point.