by Akan Ido

Mallam Husseini, a notorious terrorist suspected to be a member of the Boko Haram Islamic sect has been killed in a shoot-out with military men along the Jos-Bauchi highway.

Reports say Husseini led a terrorist cell in Plateau and was also said to have led an attack on the Police Anti-Robbery Squad in Abuja in November 2012.

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

In the incident today which led to the terrorist’s death, a group of insurgents were said to have attacked a military convoy which was on a routine patrol between Jos and Bauchi. At the end of the encounter, the Ford bus used by the terrorists was captured, 8 primed Improvised Explosive Devices, rifles, pistols and about 70 rounds of ammunition.

See photos from the attack below: