Joint Task Force, JTF, spokesman, Lt.-Col. Hassan Mohammed, said yesterday in Maiduguri, that JTF killed four suspected members of Jamaatu Ahlil Sunna lidawati wal Jihad, aka Boko Haram.
He said this while parading the corpses of the sect members at the spot where they were killed at Bayan-Quarters in the metropolis.
The suspects were reportedly driving a Volkswagen Golf saloon car painted in taxi colour at 6:30pm, Wednesday, when they were accosted by JTF members.
Although they were reportedly armed with sophisticated weapons, they seemed to have exhausted their ammunition going by the ease with which they were reportedly subdued by the superior fire power of the JTF.
Mohammed, who described the day’s operation as “a bad day for the sect,” added that their killing was the fourth of the day.
He said ‘Their refusal to stop at check points prompted the JTF soldiers to monitor their movement. As they made attempts to escape, our men did not waste the chance to bring them down.
“Two of them on the passengers’ seats fled with bullet wounds and our men are still in hot pursuit.”
One of the suspects, in his mid-20s, was dressed in a dark green rob and armed with two AK-47 riffles and extra magazines.