Boko Haram Members Effort to Free Fellow Terrorist This Morning Foiled As Military Claim Many Militants Died in the Crossfire!

A coordinated attack early this morning, Friday, 14th March, 2014 on a military barack and environs in Maiduguri by armed Boko Haram members have been declared a failure by the Nigerian army.According to Director of Defence Information, Major-General Chris Olukolade., this was a move by pockets of terrorists to boost their depleted stock of fighters by freeing their colleagues who are being held in detention.

The statement read: “The attack has been successfully repelled with heavy human casualty on the terrorists.  Some of the victims of the terrorists’ fire in their efforts to break into the detention facility included those they came to rescue....  Many of the terrorists and their weapons have been captured.  Four soldiers were wounded and are being treated.  Hot pursuits by land and air operations are ongoing along with cordon and search of surrounding localities....  No institution has been reported attacked, although the effect of firing from the encounter could be noticed in surrounding facilities in Maiduguri.” And also added that it believed that the terrorists’ attempt was in response to the intensity of attacks on their strongholds in camps at Talala, Monguzum, Sambisa forests, Gwoza, Mandara mountains as well as the general area of Lake Chad, where the “camps have been destroyed and many insurgents killed.”