In a press statement made available to news men on Tuesday in Abuja and signed by the acting Director, Army Public Relations, Sani Usman, among the rescued are 21 children, seven women, including three nursing mothers, and two elderly male adults.
The statement also said that the rescue operation was carried out by 7 Division of the Nigerian Army as a “result of ongoing operations under the Operation Lafiya Dole to clear Dikwa and its environs of Boko Haram terrorists’’.
Usman also said that “the Nigerian troops discovered a training shed inside the vandalised and looted palace of the Shehu of Dikwa where weapon handling and engagement of aircraft were being taught to new Boko Haram terrorist recruits.’’
