23 Nigerian Soldiers are yet to be accounted for after B@k@ H@r@m insurgents ambushed a military convoy at Boboshe village in Bama local government area of Borno.
5 officers, 18 Soldiers and 8 trucks were missing after the attack which occurred early on Saturday.
NAN learnt that the military, acting on intelligence, mobilised troops in a convoy of 11 trucks to clear the insurgents from the deserted village.
The attacking insurgents were believed to have been those who escaped the ongoing offensive by the military to flush out the Boko Haram terrorists in the fringes of Sambisa Forest and Lake Chad region.
