How Nigerian Troops vanquished rampaging ISWAP terrorists, rescue abducted passengers, recover golf car, tricycle in Yobe

How Nigerian Troops vanquished rampaging ISWAP terrorists, rescue abducted passengers, recover golf car, tricycle in Yobe

By Zagazola Makama

Nigerian Army troops of Sector 2, Operation Hadin Kai, have vanquished 4 ISWAP terrorists and rescued some abducted passengers in Buni Yadi, Yobe state.

Intelligence sources told Zagazola Makama, a Counter-Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in the Lake Chad region that the terrorists were neutralized in Lamisuri village, Gujba LGA.

The sources said report was received at about 10am on Friday February 16, 2024 that terrorists riding on a tricycle and motorcycles had hijacked some commuters and abducted some passengers near Yobe state college of Agriculture along the road to Buni Yadi.

A Military patrol team was immediately dispatched to go after the terrorists in the given direction of their escape route to rescue the victims.

The team first caught up with one of the hijacked vehicles, a green volkswagen golf car with registration number BBU 353 HD with two female passengers and some children which was abandoned during a hot pursuit by the military patrol team.

The patrol team took the victims and the abandoned vehicle to safety before continuing their mission of trailing the remaining terrorists for possible rescue of the remaining vehicles and passengers.

The hot chase by the troops yielded positive results when they caught up with the terrorists near Lamisuri village in Gujba LGA where firefight ensued.

During the encounter, the team killed four members of the terrorists and recovered one tricycle with some stolen food items while some of the terrorists were believed to have escaped from the scene with degrees of gunshot wounds.

The remaining two hijacked vehicles were however not found at the scene of the encounter but tracks of moving vehicles were observed heading towards Meleri community near Goniri village.

The team followed up again on the track until they arrived at Meleri village where they were reliably informed that they sighted two other vehicles, a golf and a Honda car believed to have escaped with their passengers from the scene of the troops earlier encounter with the terrorists at Lamisuri village.

It was further gathered that one of the vehicles headed towards Buni Yadi while the other went towards Damaturu going through Katarko village.

The military sources said it was intensifying efforts to track the fleeing terrorists and rescue the rest of their victims.

How Nigerian Troops vanquished rampaging ISWAP terrorists, rescue abducted passengers, recover golf car, tricycle in Yobe