Forty-eight corpses of persons killed by Boko Haram terrorists during an oil exploration to the Lake Chad Basin have been brought to the Maiduguri Teaching Hospital in the Borno State capital.
Sources at the UMTH and the Maimalari Army Barrack told The PUNCH that the corpses were brought into Maiduguri from the scene of the attack.
The corpses brought include 18 soldiers, 15 Civilian JTF, five university staff and four NNPC drivers.
Also six persons who were wounded in the attack but escaped to somewhere in Yobe State were later found dead and brought to Maiduguri.
Apart from the wounded soldiers admitted to military hospital in the town, two members of the Civilian JTF were as at Thursday on admission at the UMTH.
The Army, in a press statement on Wednesday by it’s spokesman, Brig. Gen. Sani Usman, had claimed that all the NNPC staff abducted in the Tuesday’s ambush had been rescued.
Usman, in the statement, said: “On receipt of the information, the Brigade mobilized and sent reinforcement, search and rescue party that include the Armed Forces Special Forces and guides that worked and pursued the terrorists throughout the night.
“So far, they have rescued all the NNPC staff and recovered the corpses of the Officer, 8 soldiers and a civilian who have been evacuated to 7 Division Medical Services and Hospital.
“The team recovered 4 vehicles one of which include a gun truck mounted with an Anti-Aircraft Gun, 2 white Hilux taken away from NNPC staff and 1 blue Hilux belonging to CJTF. The team also recovered large quantities of arms and ammunition, several spare tyres, many jerry cans of containing Petroleum, Oil and Lubricant, assorted drugs, Improvised Explosive Device (IED) making materials, reflective jackets and a Motorola handheld radio, among others. The team also: http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2017/07/breaking-corpses-of-18-soldiers-30.html

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U think its civilians that u can slap nd giv frog jump punishment to

See as half trained malam combatants waste una like Chinese fowl

Ordinary gun u cannot shoot

FAILED EXPERIMENTS

#Eco99#

Sad
This guys are people's husbands ,fathers, sons, breadwinners .

Oh lord! this is disheartening!
God rest their souls!

Why is that man dragging the corpse on the ground like that?

poshestmina:
Sad
This guys are people's husbands ,fathers, sons, breadwinners .

Oh lord! this is disheartening!
God rest their souls!

Why is that man dragging the corpse on the ground like that?

These brave soldiers did what I can't do. They died for Nigeria.

May the Almighty grant them eternal rest.

so they had to lie dem in state 1st for d villagers to do file past and den d media buries dem abi?




Nigerian and unproffessionality if that word exists

Lord have mercy, but wait o o I thought they have been technically defeated?RIP TO THEM

It is the height of disrespect to DRAG the body of a fallen soldier, in the manner that is typically done for dead ENEMY combatants, when they are gathered to be burnt or crushed by tanks for the purpose of ensuring that none of them are "playing dead", with the intent of escaping later.

Each one of those fallen federal soldiers should at the very least, have been carried in sealed body bags, or better still on stretchers, in order to accord each one of them that one final token measure of dignity that is due to all servicemen who gave their lives for their country.

Seeing the way the corpses of their dead comrades are dragged across the ground in this way, is a spectacle that is certain to have a profoundly demoralizing effect on all the other troopers present at the scene, who face death daily in the field of battle. When morale sinks, the will to fight evaporates, and unit cohesion suffers, leading to yet higher casualty and outright desertion rates.