The Defence Headquarters claimed on Friday troops of the Nigerian Army killed 38 suspected terrorists and arrested 242 other criminals in different operations across the country.
The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Edward Buba, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said the troops also rescued 89 kidnapped hostages during the operations.
He said the arrested suspects comprised 175 gunmen, 20 kidnappers, 30 collaborators and 17 pipeline vandals.
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