Eight suspected Islamists were also arrested in a separate incident, a spokesman of a special military unit, Lieuteant Colonel Sagir Musa, said.
“We killed two top commanders of Boko Haram in a shootout outside the city on their way to Damaturu (capital of neighbouring Yobe state) where they planned to attack some military and civilian targets,” he told AFP.
“We recovered a car, five mobile phones and weapons from the terrorists,” he said.
“Eight Boko Haram terrorists are now in our custody from raids we carried out in some parts of the city,” Musa said.
The suspects were allegedly brought in from other states for planned attacks in the city, the hotbed of the sect’s activities.
Musa said the shootout on Wednesday on the outskirts of the city followed intelligence information that the commanders were planning attacks on military and civilian targets in Yobe state where the sect had previously carried out deadly attacks.
Soldiers on Monday said they shot dead a suspected media spokesman for Boko Haram and another high-ranking member outside Kano, Nigeria’s largest city in the north.
Troops involved in the operation said one of those killed was suspected to have been the Boko Haram spokesman who has used the alias Abul Qaqa.
A second man, believed to be the “field commander” for Kogi and Kaduna states as well as the capital Abuja, was also shot and later died from his wounds.
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