Two top commanders of Boko Haram and eleven other terrorists have been killed in a recent counteroffensive by combined troops of the Northeast Joint Taskforce Operation, Hadin Kai, in the Bitta and Wulgo communities of the Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State.
The commanders, identified as Abu Nazir (Munzir of Juye) and Abu Fatima (Munzir of Koloram) led the terrorists to two failed attempts to attack the two communities on Thursday, August 21 and Friday, August 22, leading to the killing of the 13 terrorists by ground troops in close support with the air component command of the theater of operations.
Confirming the killing of the two Boko Haram commanders in the early morning counterattack on the terrorists, the Theater Commander, Northeast Joint Taskforce Operation, Hadin Kai, Maj. Gen. Abdulsallam Abubakar, disclosed that the terrorists attempted to infiltrate Bitta and Wulgo at midnight on Thursday in separate operations, but troops immediately engaged them in a fierce gun battle which lasted several hours into the early hours of Friday morning.