The clash occurred while the army personnel were responding to citizens' distress calls following a terrorists’ attack on Malele community within Mutumji area of Maru Local Government Area, according to Channels TV.
Some terrorists and personnel of the Nigerian Army were reportedly killed following an ambush by the armed terrorists on Sunday in Zamfara State.
The clash occurred while the army personnel were responding to citizens' distress calls following a terrorists’ attack on Malele community within Mutumji area of Maru Local Government Area, according to Channels TV.
Sources from the military who spoke under anonymity said on Monday that the troops fought gallantly to repel the ambush, gun duel but it led to the death of numerous terrorists and some men of the Nigerian Army.
The terrorists also burnt the three army’s armoured vehicles.
Residents of the attacked settlements claim that bandits from several camps in Zamfara, Katsina, Niger, and Kaduna States gathered to assault Malele, Ruwan Tofa, Zaman Lafiya, and other nearby areas under Dansadau Emirate because the communities refused to engage the bandits in conversation.
Nuhu Dansadau, a resident of Dansadau said that as the resident obtained the information of the coming attacks, a distress call was made over to the security services who responded swiftly.
According to Mr Dansadau, the joint security forces that aided the locals pushed the terrorists to flee into the neighboring Mutumji community.
He, however, observed that during the course of repelling the onslaught, an airstrike of the Nigerian Airforce targeted at the terrorists group surrounding Mutumji area dropped at a position within the community, killing several persons.
The authorities were not to issue a formal statement on the attack at the time of reporting this report.