JTF kills six, arrest 11 suspected B’Haram members
September 16, 2013 by Sodiq Oyeleke with agency report 7 Comments
Boko Haram members
| credits: File copy
| credits: File copy
No fewer than six suspected members of Boko Haram were killed and another 11 arrested by the Joint Task Force on Sunday.
A military commander on Sunday, said
vigilantes in northeastern Nigeria captured the 11 suspected members of
the Boko Haram sect and handed them over to the army.
He added that four of the suspects died
of injuries they sustained on Saturday night when they engaged members
of the JTF in a gun battle.
“The youth vigilantes mobilised from
Maiduguri to Michika in pursuit of six Boko Haram terrorists who fled
from Bama and succeeded in arresting them along with five other
terrorists hosting them,” he told AFP.
In a related development, the Commanding
Officer of Special Operation Battalion, Mubi, Lt.- Col. Beyidi Martins
confirmed the arrest of the 11 suspected Boko Haram insurgents in
Michika, Adamawa State.
He said six of the suspects were taken
to Maiduguri, while two of the remaining five brought to Mubi died while
trying to resist arrest.
“Two of the remaining three also died
today (Sunday) from injuries inflicted on them by the civilian JTF. One
is still alive and is being interrogated,’’ Martins said.
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