Troops of Operation Lafia Dole have arrested 167 insurgents in a renewed offensive in the Islands around the Lake Chad.

In the offensive, which commenced about two weeks ago with coordinated air and artillery bombardments on the insurgents’ enclaves, the troops also killed several insurgents, according to a press statement signed by Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, Deputy Director, Public Relations of the Lafiya Dole Theatre Command.

Troops, according to the statement, also extricated and profiled 67 women and 173 children who revealed during the exercise that they were family members of insurgents who fled following troops’ offensive.

Arrangement is ongoing to hand them over to IDP camp authorities after preliminary investigations are concluded, the statement said.