Nigerian armed forces have killed 74 Boko Haram militants in air and ground raids, the military has confirmed.
The troops launched their offensive against Boko Haram camps in remote villages in the northeast state of Borno, where the group has its strongest presence.
The military appears to be stepping up its offensive against the militants, who have killed thousands of people since their uprising began four years ago.
Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed Dole said: "The operation, which involved ground and aerial assault supported by the Nigerian Air Force led to the destruction of the identified terrorist camps, killing 74 terrorists while others fled with serious injuries."
The army is stepping up operations in the Boko Haram stronghold of Borno He said that two soldiers had been wounded in the operation.
It is the second strike against the Islamist sect in a week. Last week, the army said it had killed 37 Boko Haram members in a similar operation in another remote area of Borno.
Nigerian forces have intensified attacks against Boko Haram since May, when President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in three states in the northeast.
However, the group has retaliated. In late September militants shot dead 40 students as they slept at a college in the region.
Boko Haram carried out a bombing at the UN headquarters in Abuja in 2011 Boko Haram is fighting to establish an Islamic state in religiously mixed Nigeria.
The group launched its uprising against the state in 2009, turning itself from a clerical movement opposed to Western culture into an armed militia with links to al Qaeda's West African wing.
The group is seen as the biggest security threat to Nigeria, Africa's top oil producer.
Although their activities are located hundreds of miles away from its southern oil fields, they have bombed the capital Abuja at least three times, including a deadly attack on the United Nations' Nigeria headquarters in 2011.
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