Nigerian soldiers have retreated from their ongoing operations in Sambisa forest on Thursday following concerns that the area was booby-trapped with mines after three pro-government vigilantes were killed by a landmine.
A soldier who confirmed the retreat of the Nigerian troops said:
''The soldiers have retreated to Bama because of mines. They had been on the road but that made them vulnerable, so they moved to the bush but there are mines planted there (too)," one soldier, who did not want to be named, told Reuters.
"Three of our boys were killed by a landmine as we progressed into Sambisa. We've suspended going farther," Muhammad Mungonu, a member of a pro-government vigilante,
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