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The dreaded Boko Haram terrorists had Friday suffered an all time defeat in the hands of the Nigeria military when soldiers of the Nigeria Army repelled an early morning attack on Konduga town, killing at least 200 of the terrorists, security sources said.
According to an inside military source in Maiduguri, the killed terrorists were led by a notorious Amir (top leader) of the sect, who also died hours after he was picked alive but with serious injuries.
The officer who wouldn't want to be quoted or named in this report because only the Nigeria Army headquarters was allowed to speak to the press, said the insurgents, in their relentless bid to invade Maiduguri were ambushed by the Nigerian soldiers in Konduga, 35km away from Maiduguri, and engaged them in a no mercy onslaught.
"So far this has been the most successful outing in recent times, because we left no stone unturned ", said the officer.
"We've had hints in the last two days that they would be attacking Konduga with the intention of taking and using the town to launch a major attack on Maiduguri; we waited patiently for the day and as God would have it, they came as expected.
"Unfortunately for them, our men were fully mobilized for the engagement and we're able to hold them for hours until every single of them dropped dead.
"We counted up to about 200 of them, including one of them that was attempting suicide bombings, we also shot dead their camera man and recovered his stupid camera; there were over 200 of their corpses littering everywhere.
The source added that six of the vehicles that the terrorists used were recovered and brought to the barracks in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.
Another top security officer who also confirmed the Konduga attack to journalists, but would not want to be named in this report because his job is not to talk to the press, said in a phone interview that "it is a big victory and our soldiers were disciplined and gallant all through the operation".
"It was what we can call 'operation totality', because we didn't record one single casualty on our part and we ensured that not a single one of them escaped ", said the top soldier, who wouldn't want to be named in this report.
The officer, added that the Boko Haram kingpin, that led the operation was recognized as one that fits the description given by one escaped retired soldier that abducted by the Boko Haram terrorists some time last.
"The Amir was alive for some hours before he later died due to serious injury he sustained, but he was heavily bearded, and huge, just like that escaped old soldier described to the security intelligence operatives while he was being debriefed. But the big news is that he is dead because we gathered he was one of the deadliest leaders in sect", the very reliable source said.
Konduga wasn't the only victory story for the Nigeria soldiers.
ECHOESINN had also gathered that another unit of the Boko Haram terrorists met their collective waterloo at a market village called Ngom, about 15km away from Maiduguri.
According to a local vigilante official who declined being quoted because the soldiers warned them against speaking on any military operation, "our soldiers have made us proud at noon of today (Friday) near Ngom, a village market not up to 20km away from Maiduguri, when the insurgents attempted to invade Maiduguri through the Gamboru-Ngala highway; They were repelled by the soldiers. Many were killed and some of them ran away abandoning their vehicles".
However, our reporter reliably gathered that the insurgents, in perhaps apparent anger and frustration over the defeat in Konduga, tried to invade Maiduguri through the Gamboru-Ngala road, where they attacked traders at the Ngom market, killing 13 members of CIVILIAN-JTF and four civilians, before the military arrived to repel them.
Maiduguri the Borno state capital was woken by some friendly gun shooting by soldiers at the outskirts of the city, along the Konduga -Maiduguri road.
It was later gathered that it was soldiers that were reacting with friendly firing as they got the hint of the ongoing face off with Boko Haram in Konduga.
Military choppers had continued to hover the city all day, as residents began to worry over the tensed situation there. The scary atmosphere later simmered when the victory news of Konduga and Ngom reached the city
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