Nigeria Police Force Rescue Soldiers Attacked By Boko Haram Terrorist

                         

The  Nigerian soldiers were rescued from the attack of Boko Haram terrorist by the Nigerian police counter-terrorism unit in Maiduguri on Monday. This incident happened along Auno road in Maiduguri.

 Prior to the arrival of the police to the scene, the soldiers have lost 2 of their members to the terrorist group. Some soldiers were also kidnapped and 2 gun trucks containing about 60 AK47 rifles and ammunition were taken. on the arrival of the police on the scene, there was an exchange of gunfire which resulted in the rescue of 2 soldiers and recovery of one gun truck and some ammunition.   

The leader of the police unit said that they were traveling along Auno road when the saw the army truck packed on the road. He said: “We decided to move across the road so see what’s happening. We saw a military vehicle on an interred road. We saw a dead body. We thought it was a bomb,” the unnamed police officer said in the video.

“I said let us scrutinize the vehicle. (It was there) we saw this number of arms and decided to pick them out,” the officer, who wore a bulletproof vest and face cap with SARS crested on them, noted.

He added that they “decided to retrieve (the ammunition) and go back,” when they saw a vehicle burning along the road and a fighter jet hovering above them.

He said their decision was taken to avoid being mistaken for terrorists since “we didn’t communicate with the army.”