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The Defence Headquarters has announced the killing of a “notorious terrorist” who had led serial attacks on security personnel.

According to a DHQ statement, the terrorist, Mallam Husaini, died in an encounter between his group and a military convoy along the Jos-Bauchi Highway.

“Mallam Husaini Husaini who leads a cell of the terrorists billed to operate in the Plateau is known to have led an attack on Headquarters, Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad in Abuja in November 2012,” read the statement released by director of defence information, Major-General Chris Olukolade.

“He also led the attack on military convoy moving from Lokoja to Kaduna, where 2 soldiers were killed in January 2013.”

Olukolade explained that the terrorist gang had attacked a military convoy while on an operational patrol between Jos and Bauchi; and at the end of the encounter, the Ford bus used by the terrorists was captured, while 8 primed Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), rifles, pistols and about 70 rounds of ammunition were recovered.

He added that in another operation at Malamfatori, Borno State, security personnel in pursuit of a band of terrorists who attacked a police station recovered the vehicles stolen by the gang, which they abandoned while fleeing into Niger Republic.

“Other items, which included uniforms of security organisations, protective gears, boots and other goods which they had stolen from various locations towards Nigeria-Niger border, were also recovered by troops,” DHQ further said.