The Defence Headquarters has mentioned no fewer than 43 terrorists have been neutralised and 115 others arrested by troops in several operations prior to now week.
The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. Edward Buba, disclosed this in an announcement on Friday in Abuja.
Buba mentioned the navy remained targeted on its marketing campaign in opposition to insurgents and operations in opposition to different criminals throughout the nation.
In accordance with him, troops are searching terrorists of their hiding locations and conducting focused offensives to destroy them.
He mentioned that troops had neutralised a number of leaders of terrorist teams and their foot troopers, in addition to degraded their combating capabilities.
“In the course of the week in focus, troops carried out ambushes, raids, combating patrols and different types of offensives in opposition to the terrorists. These offensive actions resulted in 43 terrorists being neutralised and 115 arrested.
“Troops recovered 87 assorted weapons and 666 assorted ammunition, comprising 11 AK-47 rifles, one FN rifle, two pump-action weapons and eight regionally fabricated weapons.
“Additionally recovered are 11 Dane weapons, two regionally fabricated pistols, one Makarov pistol, one Beretta pistol, one fabricated SMG, one locally-made mortar with one empty bomb, 4 IEDs, 17 rounds of seven.62mm NATO, 592 rounds of seven.62mm particular ammo, 4 rounds of seven.5mm ammo, one spherical of 9mm ammo and 36 dwell cartridges.
“Others are 18 empty circumstances of seven.62mm particular, two bandoliers, 13 magazines, two autos, 21 cell phones, 9 bikes, 15 bicycles, two tricycles, 5 Boafeng HH radios and the sum of N1.6 million, amongst different objects,” he mentioned.