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| Pictures 1 & 2: AK 47 rifles and bomb making materials recovered from the hideouts of terrror suspects in Kano on Sunday. Picture 3: One of the razed buildings used as a hideout by the suspects. |
Operatives
of the Joint Task Force on Sunday averted another major attack by
terrorists in Kano by raiding their hideouts at Unguwa Uku area of
the ancient city.
The operatives, acting on a tip off,
were said to have raced to the area around 4am and intercepted a
Volkswagen Golf, primed with explosives, which some terrorists had
wanted to use and wreck havoc during the Easter celebration in the city.
Residents of the area said the
soldiers thereafter invaded a compound housing the suspected terrorists
but were greeted with explosions.They added that the operatives who
were not deterred exchanged gunfire with the terrorists for about four
hours.
The spokesperson of JTF in Kano, Ikedi
Iweha, was quoted as saying that the task force killed 14 Boko Haram
suspects in the raid.
One of the residents said it was
unclear if most of the terrorists were killed by the Improvised
Explosive Devices detonated by them or by the operatives.
He added that bodies were seen being
carried out of one of the buildings in the compound raided by the
operatives while 14 AK 47 rifles, 10 peak milk-size IEDs, four drums of
50- litre primed explosives and 51 other items in small drums were
recovered.
The houses were thereafter demolished while the corpses were taken to a morgue.
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