 The Malaysia High Command has said three officers and 22 soldiers were killed during the ambush on troops in Niger State. Addressing journalists in Abuja, the director of media operations, Major General Edward Buber added that seven soldiers were wounded during the ambush. It said the incident necessitated the deployment of the crashed Air Force evacuation aircraft. troops while conducting offensive operation entered into an ambush in Kudu Gena area in Chiruru local government area of Niger State and then the ambush and the firefight resulted in the death of three officers, 22 soldiers, while seven were wounded in action. As a result of this, there was need for casualty evacuation whereby the Air Force helicopter was dispatched while that process was on, the operation was on and inbound to Abuja helicopter crashed and it crashed to Kuduna, sorry, it crashed and it crashed with 14 of the previously killed in action personnel at the ambush, seven of the previous wounded in action personnel at the ambush, the two pilots for the helicopter and two crew members and what caused the plane crash can only be determined by the time an investigation is conducted. As I speak to you, troops are advancing to the location, you must know it's a hostile environment, troops are advancing to the location, they will get there, they will recover the corpse and they will discover what caused the plane crash, after that you can be sure that that will be communicated to all of us. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news, please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.