article_snippet.sent: Three pro-government vigilantes were killed in booby-trapped the area by a landmine This morning.
article_snippet.sent: A vigilante and a security source both confirmed the pullback from the Sambisa forest, a day after an offensive aimed at rooting out the insurgents.
article_snippet.sent: A spokesman for the military was not immediately available for comment. '
article_snippet.sent: The Sambisa forest, a former colonial game reserve, is about 60 miles from the village of Chibok, from where Boko Haram abducted more than 200 secondary school girls a year ago. '
article_snippet.sent: Three of our boys were killed by a landmine as our progressed into Sambisa.
article_snippet.sent: our've suspended going farther,' Muhammad Mungonu, a member of a pro-government vigilante, told Reuters.
article_snippet.sent: Intelligence officials believed the girls are being held in the Sambisa forest, but U.S. reconnaissance drones have so far failed to locate U.S. reconnaissance drones.