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Air Strikes Hit Bandits’ Camps, Kill Scores In Katsina
The Defence Headquarters says the Air Component of Operation Hadarin Daji eliminated scores of bandits in air raids on their camps at Birnin Kogo and Dunya forests in Katsina State.
In a statement issued on Friday by the Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche said the air attacks were launched on Monday and Tuesday.
Enenche said the air raids were conducted based on intelligence reports indicating that the locations were utilised by the terrorists-affiliated bandits as a rendezvous to plan attacks and store weapon.
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The aerial surveillance missions, according to him, also established pattern-of-life evidence of the presence of black attire-wearing terrorists at the two locations.
He said that an appropriate force package of Nigerian Air Force (NAF) fighter jets and helicopter gunships were subsequently dispatched to engage the locations.
According to him, intelligence sources later confirmed that no fewer than 37 bandits were neutralised at Dunya while many more were killed at Birnin Kogo.
“The Armed Forces of Nigeria and other security agencies remain resolute in the fight against banditry and other sundry crimes and will not relent until normalcy is restored to all troubled zones of the country,” the News Agency of Nigeria quoted him as saying.
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