The Defence Headquarters has reacted to the news all over the media that a gun duel between soldiers and the members of the Islamic militant sect Boko Haram has left almost 200 people dead.
The Director Defence Information, Brigadier General Chris Kolade told journalists in Abuja that the information from the Defence Headquarters operations unit suggest that only 25 members of the insurgence were killed while the military lost one solider.
He further stated that the intervention of the military followed a distress call by villagers in the fishing community of Baga on Lake Chad in the northeast Nigeria.
He however did not comment on the civilian casualties in the incidence.
Reports in the media suggests that as many as 185 people have died in the gun duel between members of the Nigerian Armed Forces and members of the Islamic militant group Boko Haram.
