No fewer than 11 soldiers have been killed and six others including a brigade commander have sustained injuries during terrorists attack on a Forward Operating Base (FOB) at Wajiroko in Borno State.
According to military sources, the brigade commander was injured when his vehicle stepped on an Improvise Explosive (IED) enroute the location to provide support to the Base.
He said at about 2205 hours on 24 March 2025, own troops for Forward Operating Base (FOB) WAJIROKO came under BHT/ISWAP terrorists attack.
This prompted the brigade to call for air support in addition to sending re-enforcement team immediately, however, the re-enforcement team encountered IED along the way hence, a second re-enforcement led by the Commander 25 Brigade (name withheld) set out for the mission.
According to the report, the second re-enforcement team was still enroute when the Brigade Commander’s Hilux vehicle encountered IED around Damboa,”.
The resulted explosion led to death of three soldiers and three others wounded in action including the Brigade Commander.
While details of the attack were not readily available, the report said the pilot dispatched to provide air support “communicated that he can sight fire around the FOb while scores of soldiers could be seen running towards Sabon Gari, likely that the FOB had been dislodged”
The report added that the general security situation within the area of responsibility is fluid and urged troops to remain at maximum alert.
further reports later revealed that 11 soldiers were killed in action (KIA 11),
Six soldiers wounded in action (WIA 6) and four soldiers missing in action
(MIA 4).
The Director Defence Media Operations Major General Markus Kangye did not respond to messages for confirmation.
Recall that on January 4 2025, terrorists attacked a military base in Damboa killing six soldiers.
President Tinubu had also ordered that the incident be probed in order to prevent future occurrences.
However,just one month after the attack and probe, terrorists attacked another military base in the same Borno killing soldiers and injuring a brigadier general who was riding in a soft skin vehicle instead of a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle (MRAP) to provide support to the troops.
