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The Nigerian military on Thursday has confirmed that the Troops of the 25 Task Force Brigade of Operation HADIN KAI have reportedly gundown an errant personnel who shot and killed a staff of one of the NGOs providing humanitarian support in the North East.
Assistant Director, Army Public Relations. Headquarters Theatre Command, Major Samson Nantip Zhakom made this known in a press statement made available to SpyeTV News.
It was gathered that the soldier, attached to the Special Forces had walked off his base in a remote town of Damboa, in Borno, at about 3:00 p.m. Thursday and went on a shooting rampage using an Ak47 riffle.
According the Major Samson Nantip Zhakom stated that, "the Theatre Command regrets to inform the public of a sad occurrence at one of our military base today.
He said, same soldier also killed another soldier and injured the co-pilot of one of the UN helicopters. .
"The injured co-pilot has been stabilized while the corpses of the deceased have been moved to the 7 Division Hospital.
Detailed investigation into the incident and subsequent remedial actions have commenced into the highly regrettable incident. Further details will be provided later
