Maiduguri/Konduga attacks: Troops kill dozens of insurgents

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(Nigeria) Nigerian military’s  ground and air operations following the attacks on Maiduguri and Konduga, Borno State, have led to the killing of dozens of insurgents.
Security sources confirmed that at least 53 more terrorists lost their lives as troops in pursuit of terrorists engaged those that fled and their additional reinforcements in the outskirts of Konduga and Maiduguri in a battle Sunday through to Monday.
The sources added that “Health and emergency workers are having hectic challenges in evacuating terribly mangled corpses of the terrorists for mass burial.”
Meanwhile, a tweet on the twitter handle of Defence Headquarters said that a substantial number of heavy weapons have been captured in addition to the number of terrorists that died in the night fighting till Monday’s morning.
It added that Nigerian forces also recorded some casualty but that “troops and Air force patrol are still ongoing.”
A military source, said that the attempt on Maiduguri and Konduga might have been staged to divert troops’ attention from their goal of commencing the “once and for all” battle against the terrorists by members of the Multinational Joint Task Force from Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and Chad planned for early this week.
There are fears that saboteurs among local sympathizers in one of the affected communities might have betrayed the troops, especially concerning the plans to annihilate terrorists to pave way for the success and peaceful conducts of forthcoming elections in every part of the country.

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