No fewer than 40 soldiers of the Nigerian Army were feared killed while 65 others were missing as a
result of the attack carried out by the Islamic militants Boko Haram ambush in the north of Borno State.
Investigations revealed that the insurgents attacked the soldiers in Kasiya Forests, north of Borno State.
It was learnt that the troops were left
to face the heavily armed insurgents, who attacked them from different
directions following the failure of the planners of the operation to
give aerial support to the soldiers.
It was also gathered that soldiers
involved in the ongoing campaign against the Boko Haram insurgents were
firing indiscriminately into the air to protest against the killings
which they described as strategic errors.
The soldiers were said to have demanded why the initial arrangement of aerial support was not provided to back the soldiers.
The source added that the casualty
figure on the side of the Nigerian soldiers in the ongoing campaign
against the insurgents had been on the high side as a result of repeated
mistakes and communication inadequacies.
But the authorities of the Nigerian Army
denied the report that it lost 40 soldiers with 65 others missing in a
Boko Haram onslaught.
culled from punchng.com
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