The Joint Task Force (JTF), the combined armada of military personnel in Maiduguri today claimed to have killed eight members of Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad, also known as Boko Haram Boko Haram, at Baga Monday Market.
The Joint Task Force (JTF), the combined armada of military personnel in Maiduguri today claimed to have killed eight members of Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad, also known as Boko Haram Boko Haram, at Baga Monday Market.
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JTF said that in addition to eliminating the eight, the corpses of which it says it has, they found and demobilized several Improvised Explosives Devices planted in the market.
Spokesman Lt.Col. Mohammed Hassan Ifeji said, “We killed eight Boko Haram in the market, and we recovered large quantity of IEDs, and we successfully demobilized all the bombs they planted. The people we killed were those that engaged us and planted the bomb in the Baga Monday Market. No single civilian was affected; all you are hearing is lie.”
Responding to the rumours that about 30 persons died in the confrontation, Ifeji said, “It is a lie and we have the poof that you can verify from hospitals. We gunned down eight of them who wanted to kill innocent Nigerians.”
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