Aerial bombardments carried out by the Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai in the early hours of July 3 near Degbewa and Chinene, which are two known terrorists hideouts tucked in the Mandara mountains on Nigeria’s border with Cameroon have led to the killing of several terrorists and destruction of their structures.
A statement by Airforce spokesperson, Air Vice Marshal Edward Gabkwet says the air strikes became expedient after several days of aerial surveillance over Chinene and Degbewa, which revealed a consistent gathering of large number of terrorists in the area also suspected to be sites for manufacturing of Improvised Explosive Devices and storage area.
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The statement adds that The terrorists were also observed to be loitering within the vicinity, clearly oblivious of what was to befall them, and probably confident that their location was safe and secured from any form of military bombardments.
The air strikes were thus authourised with the aircraft bombarding the locations in several passes until majority of the terrorists were killed. Others observed fleeing the location were taken out using canons.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
