News: Nigerian Air Force bombard hundreds of Boko Haram fighters, Insurgents drown in Lake Chad while fleeing

Hunderds of Boko Haram insurgents have drowned in the
Lake Chad as they fled the heavy bombardment by Nigerian
Air Force heralding the advance of troops on mission to
flush them out of Baga.
Though the number of the dead terrorists was not given,it
was said that many of them met their Waterloo as they fled
the aerial attacks by NAF jets on Baga, the location of Multi-
National Joint Taskforce base seized by the sect in
January, 2015.
A statement by the Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen.
Chris Olukolade in Abuja on Saturday, said the insurgents
had buried land mines in over 1,500 spots on the routes
leading to the town.
It said all the land mines were skillfully cleared one after the
other, noting that the mining of the grounds could not save
the terrorists from the aggressive move of advancing
troops.
“A large number of terrorists have drowned in the Lake
Chad as they fled the heavy bombardment by Nigerian Air
force heralding the advance of Nigerian troops on mission
to flush them out of Baga.
“Not even the strategy of over 1500 spots with land mines
on the routes leading to the town could save the terrorists
from the aggressive move of advancing troops.
“Many of the terrorists died while an unknown but
substantial number of them fled with various degrees of
injury, in the series of encounter along the routes of
advance of the troops headed for Baga,” the statement
added.
Olukolade said apart from the five anti-aircraft guns and the
rifles captured from the terrorists, over 34 motorcycles and
five vehicles including trucks being used for operations by
the terrorists were destroyed in the course of the fighting as
troops headed for Baga, noting that the troops finally began
clearing the terrorists on arrival in the town early Saturday
morning.
The Defence spokesman said a comprehensive cordon and
search phase of military operation has now commenced to
enable troops mop up arms and ammunition and also
apprehend any terrorist who might be hiding in the vicinity.
The exercise, he added, would also determine details of the
casualties inflicted or incurred in the course of the
operations to clear Baga and environs of terrorists.
Olukolade said similar exercise is being carried out in over
15 locations namely Gajigana, Ngaze, Ngenzai, Marte
Junction, Mile 90, Yoyo, Kekeno, Kukawa, Cross Kauwa,
Kangarwa, Amirari, Kichimatari, Borokari Barati, Kauwa and
other localities where troops have flushed out the terrorists
in the operations preceding the entry to Baga.
“The troops are now dominating and conducting aggressive
patrols in the locations; The morale of troops remain high,”
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