{"id":73049,"date":"2018-12-25T23:19:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T22:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73049"},"modified":"2018-12-25T23:21:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T22:21:30","slug":"12-soldiers-killed-as-troops-repel-boko-haram-attack-in-yobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=73049","title":{"rendered":"12 soldiers killed as troops repel Boko Haram attack in Yobe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Nigerian Army on Tuesday said its troops repelled attack by Boko Haram insurgents at a military formation in Kukareta, Damaturu Local Government Area of Yobe State.<\/p>\n

The Army In a statement by Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director, Public Relations, said the insurgents had on Monday at about 6: 30 pm, attacked a Military Forward Operational Base, in Kukareta community of Yobe.
\nNwachukwu said that the gallant troops engaged the insurgents in fierce battle and repelled the attack, killing many of them, adding that a soldier was wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n

He disclosed that 13 soldiers and two police personnel also lost their lives when they ran into an ambush by the insurgents on Damaturu-Maiduguri Road.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn another encounter; troops of 1 Division on escort duty along Damaturu \u2013 Maiduguri Road, yesterday fought through an ambush staged by Boko Haram terrorists.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe gallant troops engaged the terrorists in a fire fight, courageously wading through the ambush. Sadly, thirteen military and a police personnel including an officer, paid the supreme price while extricating themselves from the ambush.<\/p>\n

\u201cA clearance operation to pursue and eliminate the Boko Haram terrorists\u2019 ambush party is still ongoing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to him, bodies of the gallant soldiers and the wounded were evacuated, adding that the wounded soldier was currently receiving treatment.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nigerian Army on Tuesday said its troops repelled attack by Boko Haram insurgents at a military formation in Kukareta, Damaturu Local Government Area of Yobe State. The Army In a statement by Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director, Public Relations, said the insurgents had on Monday at about 6: 30 pm, attacked a Military […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,2383,359],"class_list":["post-73049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-boko-haram-insurgents","tag-yobe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}