Fleeing Boko Haram fighters drown in Lake Chad

Fleeing fighters of Boko Haram sect drowned in Lake Chad after Nigerian army overpowered them during a counter operations in the North eastern part of the country. Spokesperson of the Defence Headquarters, Gen Chris Olukolade mentioned this in a statement released yesterday. Find the statement below

Many of the terrorists have drowned in the Lake Chad as they fled the heavy bombardment by Nigerian Air force signaling the advance of Nigerian troops on mission to flush them out of Baga. Not even the strategy of mining over 1500 spots filled with land mines on the routes leading to the town could save the terrorists from the aggressive move of advancing troops. All the land mines were professionally cleared one after the other. Eventually, the resistance of the terrorists fell and the land forces finally stormed the town in the early hours of Friday. Many of the terrorists fighters 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 as troops headed for Baga.
Aside from the 5 anti air craft guns and the rifles captured from the terrorists, over 34 motorcycles and 5 cars including trucks being used for operations by the terrorists were destroyed in the course of the fighting as troops headed for Baga.
The troops finally started clearing the terrorists from Baga on arrival in the town early Saturday morning. A comprehensive cordon and search phase of military operation has now kicked-off to enable troops mop up arms and ammunition and also apprehend any terrorist who might be hiding in the vicinity.
The exercise will also reel out details of the casualties inflicted or incurred in the course of the operations to clear Baga and environ of terrorists. Similar exercise is being carried out in over fifteen locations namely Ngaze, Ngenzai, Marte Junction, Mile 90, Yoyo, Kukawa, Cross Kauwa, Gajigana, Kangarwa, Amirari, Kichimatari, Borokari Barati, Kokeno, Kauwa and other localities where troops have flushed out the terrorists in the operations preceding the entry to Baga.
The army are now dominating and conducting aggressive patrols in the locations. The morale of troops remain high.