Not lower than 40 Nigerian troops have been killed by Boko Haram sect members in an ambush assault in Borno State.
The assault occurred lower than two months after 20 troopers have been killed by militants in the identical space.
As said by Defence sources, at the least 40 Nigerian troopers have been killed and 65 others went lacking in a lethal ambush by suspected members of the extremist group, Boko Haram, within the sect's stronghold in Borno State.
Army authorities are miffed by the incident, and have ordered an investigation into the suspected operation blunder that gave the militants such an higher hand.
The commanding officer of the unit that carried out the operation has now been faraway from his publish, officers say.
The casualty, one of many heaviest for the navy in its marketing campaign towards the militant group in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, occurred alongside the Baga –Maiduguri highway on Friday, September 13, in what sources described as "a traditional case of operational and communication failure".
A detachment of troopers underneath the 134 Battalion of the 12 Brigade underneath the Multi National Joint Task Force, MNJTF, stationed in Kangarwa village in Kukawa native authorities, had carried out a reconnaissance to assemble intelligence across the space, throughout which they established the presence of beforehand unnoticed Boko Haram camps.
As said by a source, the troopers returned to their base and filed a report recommending aerial bombardment of the world, preparatory for a floor operation by troops.
But that plan was cancelled on the closing minutes by an unnamed high official with out formal communication to the greater than 100 troops that had already superior to the world.
The troopers have been trapped within the ambush underneath heavy hearth from the militants who had surrounded the world, leaving at the least 40 troopers killed. Some 65 others have remained lacking.