The Joint Task Force (JTF) yesterday said that it killed two leaders of a terrorists’ group in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. In a statement made available to journalists in Maiduguri by the JTF spokesman, Lt. Col. Sagir Musa, the task force said that at about 2:20pm on Wednesday, its men, who acted on intelligence, killed two terrorists’ leaders along Maiduguri- Kano Road as they were escaping arrest by the combined team of the JTF and the State Security Services (SSS). Musa said the slain terrorists were responsible for coordinating violent activities in Mubi and Yola in Adamawa and Yobe states.

He said that the terrorists were traveling in a Honda accord 2000 model car marked BAM 214 AA to Damaturu for a planned attack on civilians and military locations when the task force accosted them.

Items recovered from the terrorists, according to Musa, include a Honda car and five mobile phones and weapons.

The JTF spokesman added that no fewer than eight other suspected terrorists were arrested in Nganaram and Lawanti areas of Maiduguri metropolis.

Those arrested, Musa said, were said to have stormed Maiduguri from neighbouring states.

He said items recovered from them include a Silver coloured Camry car marked AE 74 DTR suspected to have been stolen for likely suicide mission.

Musa, therefore, thanked the law-abiding members of the public for their timely reporting suspicious movement and activities in their neighbourhood to security agencies.

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