The Defence Headquarters claimed on Thursday that troops from various theatre commands had killed 42 suspected bandits, terrorists and criminals in the Northern part of the country in the last two weeks.
The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Musa Danmadami, who disclosed this at the bi-weekly news conference on the operations of the armed forces in Abuja, said the troops arrested 13 suspected bandits in the Irekpeni community along Lokoja-Kabba-Okene Road in Kogi State.
He added that the troops recovered a mobile phone containing the numbers of four suspected Islamic State for West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists on the watchlist of security agencies.
