Reports advancing in announce that a administrator of the Nigerian Army Strike Force Group Lt. Col. Mamudu has been dead by Boko Haram armament in Sambisa forest, Borno state.
Lt. Col. Mamudu is said to accept been dead Thursday by an improvised atomic accessory (IED) lodged in a vehicle.
The soldier, from Kogi state, has been declared as a “fearless fighter”.
According to SaharaReporters, a adolescent Naval administrator on convoying with Operation DEEP PUNCH II – the counterterrorism abhorrent adjoin Boko Haram alarm armament – was aswell dead in the ambush.
Mamudu, Defence HQ says, was on his additional deployment to the northeast, accepting served in Borno in 2015. He was an administrator of the Army’s Department of Training and Operations (DATOPS) afore he died, the Army says.