ICC Note: The Nigerian Army ambushed a group of moving Boko Haram fighters, confiscating important weapons and ammunition. Boko Haram fighters escaped wounded, but left behind various weapons and communication devices. Boko Haram has plagued northern Nigeria with violence and persecution of the Church since 2009 when they first began their bloody insurgency. Historically, they have notoriously targeted Christians with kidnapping, rape, mass murder, and church destruction.

07/15/2016, Borno, Nigeria (Premium Times) – Troops of the Nigerian Army, under the 118 Task Force Battalion of the 7th Brigade on Thursday made a major retrieval of high calibre munitions from Boko Haram when they executed an ambush attack on a moving gang of suspected terrorists in the northern part of Borno State, authorities said.

The soldiers, according to a spokesperson for the Army, were able to take possession of one Buffalo Land Cruiser gun truck mounted with an Anti-Aircraft gun, 1,600 rounds of 12.7mm Armour Piercing Incendiary (API) ammunitions, 563 rounds of 7.62mm (NATO) ammunition for General Purpose Machine Guns and 57 rounds of 7.62mm (Special) ammunition, after a brief shoot out with the outlawed Islamic group.

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