The Commanding Officer, 72 Special Forces Battalion, Makurdi, Col. Timothy Lagbaja, has said the battalion lost 28 soldiers to insurgency in the North-east and in Benue.
Lagbaja told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Makurdi on Wednesday that between 2012 and 2015, the battalion lost four officers and eight soldiers to the Tiv/Fulani and Agatu crises in Benue.
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