Soldiers of Operation Lafiya Dole have chased Boko Haram insurgents into the Republic of Niger Defence Forces, following the Amnesty granted the insurgents by the Government of that country.
The soldiers, during a sustained artillery and aerial bombardments of the insurgents’ enclaves in the Lake Chad region, wounded a major factional leader of the terrorists group, Mamman Nur.
A statement by the Deputy Director, Public Relations of the
Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole, Colonel Onyema Nwachukwu said that the fatally injured leader and his sub-commanders had fled from the onslaught.
The statement said that several of the foot soldiers of the injured leader were killed while many of them have surrendered.[myad]
