150, not 2,000 died in Baga attacks –Military

The Defence authorities have faulted the claim that over 2,000 people were killed in the Boko Haram attack on Baga, the headquarters of the Multi- National Joint Task Force on January 3 as reported by the Punch.


The Director of Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, said this during a press briefing in Abuja on Monday. He said that 150 people including a large number of members of the Boko Haram sect were killed in the confrontation.

Olukolade explained that many of the residents of Baga and the nearby communities had fled the area because of incessant attacks on their towns by the Boko Haram sect. He added that many of the residents of the community were able to flee the area while the battle between the soldiers and the insurgents lasted.


Olukolade said that the figures being reported and attributed to eyewitnesses were exaggerated. “…It is however necessary to inform Nigerians in the interim that the exercise so far has not corroborated the report on the casualty rate which was put at 2,000.

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