Airstrike kills terrorists in Niger ambush = NAF

The Nigerian Air Force, NAF, has announced that there is strong evidence that the terrorists responsible for the recent attack on Nigerian military troops in Basa, Niger State have been eliminated by airstrikes.

This was disclosed on Sunday in a statement by NAF Spokesman, Air Vice Marshal Edward Gabukwet.

He said terrorists were also involved in several improvised explosive device (IED) incidents along the Pandogari-Arawa road in the same local government area.

DAILY POST recalls that six soldiers of the 1st Division of the Nigerian Army who were deployed in Elena and Arawa communities in Bassa Ward of Shiroro Local Government were killed in a terrorist ambush on April 19. There is.

Gabkwet said the airstrike was carried out on Saturday, April 27, by the air wing of Operation Whirl Punch, a military operation against bandits and terrorists in the north-central region.

According to a NAF spokesperson, the airstrike was carried out on the stronghold of notorious terrorist kingpin alias Mallam Umar and several other commanders in the Arawa forest area.

“This attack is a sequel to a large-scale intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and ISR operation in the target area, which revealed a group of huts on the property surrounded by dense vegetation, and armed weapons roaming nearby,” he said. “The presence of terrorists was evident.”

“Elaborate intelligence gathered earlier also revealed that these same terrorists were involved in recent attacks on ground forces in the Bassa community and multiple improvised explosive device, IED, incidents along the Pandogari-Arawa road within the same LGA. It was confirmed that he was responsible.”

Source: dailypost.ng