{"id":31306,"date":"2014-09-21T04:43:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T03:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=31306"},"modified":"2014-09-21T04:43:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T03:43:57","slug":"soldiers-capture-top-boko-haram-commander-kills-60-konduga-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/soldiers-capture-top-boko-haram-commander-kills-60-konduga-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldiers Capture Top Boko Haram Commander, Kills Over 60 In Konduga Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"color: #000000;\">Wednesday, September 17, 2014 was a particularly bad day for stubborn Boko Haram terrorists operating in the North East as they lost scores of their members during repeated attempts to enter Konduga, about 70 kilometres to Maiduguri.<\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #606263;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 600; color: #66696a;\">But the icing on the cake of Nigerian troop\u2019s victory of the day was capture of \u201ca high ranking terrorists\u2019 leader\u201d who was seriously wounded and is currently being treated in a military medical facility.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #606263;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 600; color: #66696a;\">Military sources informed PRNigeria that the terrorists\u2019 leader whose name is still being kept a secret was captured after the second but more fierce battle waged by the insurgents to capture the town following their earlier routing by the military.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #606263;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 600; color: #66696a;\">Among those captured yesterday in battles where over 60 terrorists were wiped off the face of the earth.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #606263;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 600; color: #66696a;\">In addition to their losing scores of their fighters, the terrorists also lost weapons and equipments including 24 riffles, five rockets propelled grenade tubes, two machine guns as well as a Ford Ranger vehicle. Another Ford ranger vehicle was also destroyed.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #606263;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 600; color: #66696a;\">During the first battle of the day, which lasted over 12 hours, scores of the terrorists were again sent to hell.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #606263;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 600; color: #66696a;\">\u201cRight now, our troops are combing the vicinity of the battle scene in a cordon and search operation to determine the exact casualty figures suffered by the terrorists in the encounter\u201d, our source declared<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #606263;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 600; color: #66696a;\">During the encounter, three Hilux vehicles, one armoured personnel carrier and a cache of arms and ammunition were confirmed captured by the troops.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #606263;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 600; color: #66696a;\">In yet another battle which occurred at Benishek on Wednesday, troops fought through an ambush, capturing four motorcycles from fleeing terrorists.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #606263;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 600; color: #66696a;\">Unfortunately however, one soldier lost his life while four other who were wounded are receiving treatment.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #606263;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 600; color: #66696a;\">More of this can be found Twitter Handle of Defence Headquarters<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-weight: 300; color: #606263;\"><strong style=\"font-weight: 600; color: #66696a;\">PRNigeria encourages institutions to be transparent in their information management as it provides news items from authoritative sources for free use by the media<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, September 17, 2014 was a particularly bad day for stubborn Boko Haram terrorists operating in the North East as they lost scores of their members during repeated attempts to&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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