The Boko Haram faction known as Boko Haram has suffered another devastating loss of scores of its fighters in Nigerian Airforce strikes in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State, North-East Nigeria.
The intelligence-led aerial operation launched with Super Tucano targeted the jihadist group’s strategic human and material capacity in the camp of Ali Ngulde in the North-East of the Mandara Mountains
Intelligence sources told a counterinsurgency expert and security analyst.on the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama where scores of the terrorists were killed while others escaped through hill caves.
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The attack aircraft fired several bombs and destroyed several buildings including a red roof house with the Boko Haram flag concealing Ali Ngulde who is the Amir Jaysh of Boko Haram and other top commanders. The sources said that Ali Ngulde and Muke however escaped the airstrikes, while scores of his fighters met their waterloo.
The coordinated joint air and ground offensive came barely hours after similar strikes were carried out on the ISWAP convoy between Aulam and Kafa, killing unconfirmed numbers of the terrorists and destroying two of their trucks.
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall Isiaka Amao, has launched an intensive offensive air operation nicknamed “Operation Warun 3, across all the theatres of operation with the Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai as the main focus.
The aim is to soften grounds for the surface forces to exploit with a view to facilitating the speedy killing of terrorists and bandits across the country.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
