BY NDAHI MARAMA, MAIDUGURI

The men of the Joint Task Force (JTF), ‘Operation Restore Order’ in Maiduguri the Borno state capital has said that following intelligent report, the Leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau might have shot and seriously wounded in an encounter with its troops in one of the sect’s camps in Sambisa Forests since June this year.

Spokesman of the JTF, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa in a press statement issued to Journalistsin Maiduguri on Monday said, “Abubakar Shekau, the most dreaded and wanted Boko Haram Terrorists Leaders may have died of gunshots wound received in an encounter with JTF troops in one of their camps at Sambisa Game Reserve Forests on 30th June, 2013”

Source; http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/shekau-died-of-gunshot-wounds-in-borno-jtf/