Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brigadier General, Benard Onyeuko, in a statement said the troops had continued to exhibit doggedness and tactical superiority against remnants of terrorists in the North East theatre.
Onyeuko said the troops of Operation Fire Ball, a subsidiary of OPLD, had on December 8, intercepted terrorists logistics from across the border towns to Sambisa Axis on Pulka- Firgi- Banki Junction road.
He said that four of them were killed during the encounter while two bicycles, two pushcarts, several bags of dry catfish, grains and large quantity of other food items were seized.
Onyeuko said that troops of 151 Battalion had a similar encounter with some marauding Boko Haram terrorists on Firgi- Pulka road, killed three while others fled with varying degrees of injuries.
