Army captures Boko Haram armoury, kills 10

The Defence Headquarters on Saturday
said Special Forces captured a massive
armoury with arms and ammunition in
one of the camps of Boko Haram
insurgents near Lake Chad.
This was contained in an electronic mail
sent to journalists on Saturday by the
Director of Defence Information, Maj.
Gen Chris Olukolade.
Olukolade said the Special Forces
captured the large cache of arms and
ammunition from a dump in one of the
camps of the insurgents on Friday night.
He said the arms and ammunition were
still being evacuated from the site
where several of the insurgents were
said to have died during the raid.
According to him, troops and men of the
Mutli-National Joint Task Force raided
camps, surrounded the outskirts of
Duguri, Polkime, Malafatori and other
locations around the fringes of Lake
Chad.
He added that large sums of money in
different currencies and denominations
were also recovered.
The defence spokesman said a soldier
died and five others were injured in the
operation in which seven insurgents
were captured.
The defence spokesman was silent on
the number of insurgents killed in the
latest raids.
Our correspondent however gathered
that 10 of them were killed.
It was also gathered on Saturday that
members of the sect, who carried out
an attack on the headquarters of the 21
Artillery Brigade of the Nigerian Army
on Friday, were able to penetrate the
barracks because of the absence of a
perimeter fence around the sensitive
facility.
A security source told our
correspondent that the insurgents
arrived the military facility from
different locations and emerged from a
tomato plantation near the barracks.
The source said the situation at the 21
Brigade headquarters known as Giwa
Amu barracks was not different from
other barracks in the North-East.
Meanwhile, there was tension in
Maiduguri on Saturday as soldiers
received an intelligence report that the
members of the sect, who made an
attempt at the Giwa Barracks on Friday
were planning another attack on the
Maimalari Cantonment, which is the
headquarters of the newly created 7th
Infantry Division of the Nigerian Army.