1,050 Boko Haram insurgents surrender, many flee*

*1,050 Boko Haram insurgents surrender, many flee*

The Nigerian Army on Saturday said 1,050 insurgents had surrendered to troops in the Lake Chad and Monguno general area of operations, as it also warned that many of them are on the run. The army urged communities to watch out for the fleeing Boko Haram insurgents as their enclaves in the Lake Chad region come under the intense onslaught.

Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations, Operation Lafiya Dole, made the disclosure in a statement issued in Maiduguri.

Nwachukwu disclosed that 250 fighters of the Al Barnawi-led faction of the insurgents had surrendered to the Nigerian Army, sequel to artillery and aerial bombardments by troops of Operation Lafiya Dole of their enclaves in the Lake Chad basin. He added that 700 insurgents also surrendered to troops at Monguno in an ongoing clearance operation.