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Troops on operations across the country killed 220 and arrested 395 criminals in the past week.
The troops also seized 1,099,860 litres of stolen crude, arrested 55 oil thieves, and rescued 202 kidnap victims.
The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj-Gen Edward Buba, announced this in a statement on Friday June 21.
Gen. Buba said troops recovered 432 assorted weapons comprising three PKT guns, one G3 rifle, 83 AK47 rifles, 18 locally fabricated gun, 16 dane guns, two pump action guns, two double barrel guns, two single barrel guns, eight locally fabricated pistols, two revolver rifles, one hand grenades, 14 RPG bombs, one RPG launcher, two tear gas launchers, 234 smoke grenades and one ba
He said troops also recovered 9,004 assorted ammunition comprising
5,893 rounds of 7.62mm special ammo, 2,064 rounds of 7.62mm NATO, 401 rounds of 9mm ammo, 200 rounds of 7.62 x 54mm, 154 rounds of 7.62 x 51mm, 195 live cartridges, and 17 magazines.
Other items recovered, according to the defence spokesperson, are three baofeng radios, eight vehicles, 32 motorcycles, 59 mobile phones and the sum of N813,550.00.
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