The Defence Headquarters has showed the loss of life of twenty-two squaddies and over 70 insurgents throughout an ongoing army operation within the Timbuktu Triangle, a infamous terrorist stronghold in Borno Climate.
The operation, performed via troops of Operation Hadin Kai, in keeping with the DHQ, started on January 16, 2025, and has inquisitive about dismantling terrorist enclaves within the patch.
In a commentary on Sunday, the Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. Edward Buba, visible that the operation has resulted in different encounters with insurgents.
Buba added that a number of the insurgents killed had been 3 high-ranking commanders: the Terrorist Particular Forces Commander, Talha; the Operations Commander, Mallam Umar; and the Brigade Commander, Abu Yazeed.
He stated, “Troops of Operation HADIN KAI within the Northeast of the rustic performed a clearance operation to a famend terrorist stronghold and enclave referred to as the Timbuktu Triangle. The 3-prong operation geared toward dismantling the terrorist presence inside the triangle commenced on 16 Jan 25 until week.
“Troops recorded a number of encounters with terrorists throughout the process the clearance operations, which led to over 70 terrorist opponents, together with 3 important terrorist commanders, neutralised. The terrorist commanders neutralised come with and aren’t restricted to refer to: TALHA (Terrorist Particular Forces Commander), Mallam UMAR (Terrorist Operations commander) and ABU YAZEED (Terrorist Brigade Commander). “
Buba stated throughout the operations, the terrorists hired diverse deadly ways, together with the usefulness of Improvised Explosive Gadgets, suicide bombers, and drones.
Alternatively, he stated troops effectively repelled those makes an attempt, demonstrating tactical superiority.
Buba stated, “In the meantime, throughout the operations, the terrorist deployed Improvised Explosive Gadgets, Particular person Bourne Improvised Explosive Gadgets (suicide bombers) in addition to Car Bourne Improvised Explosive Gadgets (suicide bombers in explosive automobiles) to push back troops journey and assaults.
“Troops already familiar with the terrorist tactics thwarted several terrorist attempts, including shooting down the amateur drones used by the terrorist.”
Buba, week acknowledging the lack of 22 squaddies, appealed for restraint from the media in publishing the names of fallen troops to permit formal notification in their households.
He stated, “Total, throughout the process the operations, troops unfortunately recorded 22 killed in motion casualties with a number of others wounded in motion. In this account, the media is enjoined to withstand publishing names of troop casualties to permit the formal notification in their nearest of kinfolk.“