JTF kills 14 Boko Haram terrorists in Kano

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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