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photo credit: theguardian At least 26 members of Nigeria's security forces were killed and eight wounded in an ambush by gunmen in central Nigeria on Sunday night, two military sources told AFP. Separately, an air force spokesman said a helicopter to rescue the wounded crashed in the area on Monday morning, where the military is battling criminal groups, which It was not clear whether the crew and passengers survived. Two military officers requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the incident and military officials were not available for comment. “We lost 23 soldiers, including 3 officers and 3 JTF (vigilant) civilians in the encounter while eight were injured,” the first source said after “a serious altercation.” along the Zungeru-Tegina highway. A second officer made a similar assessment and said the robbers also suffered "heavy casualties". He also said contact with an Air Force helicopter sent to evacuate the wounded had been lost, with 11 d

photo credit: abc.net.au A plane belonging to the Nigerian Air Force has crashed. Sources revealed on Monday that the plane was taking off from Kaduna en route to Minna, the capital of Niger state when the incident occurred. Other details of the incident were still sketchy at the time of completion of this report. Several calls to Air Force spokesman Edward Gabkwet went unanswered. He has yet to reply to texts and Whatsapp messages sent to him about it. The Nigerian Air Force has confirmed that one of its planes crashed in Niger State on Monday. The Air Force said the plane was on an evacuation mission when the crash occurred. A statement released Monday by the NAF's Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Force Edward Gabkwet, said the plane had left Zungeru Elementary School en route to Kaduna, but it was later discovered. landed in a village in the Shiroro Local Government Area. of Nigeria. Part of it read: “A Nigerian Air Force MI-171 helicopter on a victim evacuation