Sustained airstrikes on terrorists’ enclaves in the Northwest by a Nigerian Air Force aircraft have killed high-profile terrorists’ leaders and their foot soldiers in Katsina State.
A statement by the spokesman, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet said, the airstrikes executed by the Nigerian Air Force, NAF aircraft at the Ilela community in Katsina State, led to the killing of 43 terrorists belonging to the camps of Gwaska Dankarami and Alhaji Abdulkarami, two notorious terrorists’ leaders.
The eliminated terrorists were behind a series of attacks around Safana and Dan Musa Local Government Areas of Katsina State.
The strikes were executed after NAF platforms obliterated a rocky cave on the outskirts of Ilela Village, where the terrorists usually retire to, and use as a haven, after carrying out attacks on innocent citizens.
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An intelligence source confirmed the success of the airstrike that killed scores of the terrorists.
The statement added that upon receiving reports of incessant terrorists’ attacks on villages around Safana Local Government Area, especially in Ilela Village where about 12 persons were recently killed and others chased out of the village, the air component of Operation Hadarin Daji deployed Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance, ISR, aircraft to unravel the modus operandi of the terrorists.
(Editor: Ifeanyi Mark)
