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"Yesterday was a bloody day in Zamfara and Borno states as gangs of gunmen unleashed terror with reckless abandon. By the time the armed gangs were done with their grisly business, scores of innocent compatriots lay dead. In Zamfara alone, 52 persons were killed in some communities of Tsafe local government area. Blueprint gathered that the gunmen invaded the villages of Kizara, Danjibga and Keta in the early hours of yesterday and opened fire on the residents. The attackers, who reportedly stormed the Tsafe local government area axis through the notorious Birnin-Gwari forest, struck the ill-fated communities around 4am, ransacking houses and shooting sporadically to scare members of the vigilante group operating within the area. Sources disclosed that Kizara village was mostly affected as 30 persons were said to have been killed there, including the Village Head, Alhaji Bello Ibrahim, who was brutally murdered. One Sani Sabo told journalists that because of the...

Mohammed Chad, a top Boko Haram Commander and an indigene of Marte Local Government Area of  Borno State who has been on the wanted list of the Joint Task Force (JTF) has been killed in a shootout with JTF and men of the SSS at Ruwan Zafi of Maiduguri Metropolis in Borno.

Joint Task Force Operation Restore Order in Borno state has in a latest operation in Maiduguri engages the Boko Haram sect in gun battle where the JTF killed over 20 sect members, arrests 25 while two JTF personnel were killed and three injured as arms and amunations recovered. JTF in a statement made available avalaible in Maiduguri said in the last ten days, a total of over 52 sect members has been killed in exchange of fire, while 70 were arrested.