State of Emergency: Trained Military Police Dogs Captures 50 Boko Haram Members

  

No fewer than 50 insurgents have been captured by troops of the Special Forces in the ongoing military offensive in northern Nigeria against the Boko Haram sect.

In an update on the operations yesterday, in Abuja, signed by the Director of Defence Information (DDI), Brigadier General Chris Olukolade, the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) disclosed that the over 50 additional insurgents were arrested with the aid of trained military police dogs deployed to aid troops in the operations.

It said that arms were recovered from over 15 of the captured insurgents, while making efforts to escape to Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.

The efforts of the specially trained dogs have led to the arrest of the over 50 terrorists, who were trying to infiltrate Maiduguri.

More than 15 of them were arrested with arms concealed in their body or property.

Various attempts being made by the insurgents to enter towns and cities in the North East as troops dislodge them from their forest bases, have been foiled by the dogs, it disclosed.

The DHQ stated that the trained dogs were deployed to participate in the search for the terrorists.

Meanwhile, it further said that search had been intensified as the forests in the North East were being combed.

At Desert forest, three Hilux vehicles mounted with anti-aircraft were destroyed, one Volkswagen Golf car and four motorcycles were also recovered, the DHQ said.

SOURCE: sun