Troops Rout Bandit In Zamfara, Kastina, Kill 135

The Nigeria defence headquarters on Saturday said a devastating offensive launched in Kastina and Zamfara between Wednesday and Friday has killed one hundred and thirty five bandits

The defence authorities said the bandits suffered massive casualties in massive air raids launched on their hideouts in Katsina and Zamfara States by the Air Component of Operation Hadarin Daji.

The triumph of the troops is the latest in a strings of victories recorded by the troops in the war against insecurity.

According to the Coordinator Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche. Enenche  the renewed offensive resulted in the decimation of several camps and neutralization of “no fewer than 135 armed bandits in massive air raids executed at several locations in Katsina and Zamfara States between 20 and 22 May 2020.”

He said the air strikes followed “credible Human Intelligence (HUMINT) reports as well as series of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions that led to the identification of the camps, which include Abu Radde Camps 1 and 2 and Dunya in Jibia and DanMusa Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Katsina State as well as Hassan Tagwaye’s Camp; Alhaji Auta’s Camp and Maikomi in Birnin Magaji and Zurmi LGAs of Zamfara State.”

He said: “the air interdiction missions were painstakingly undertaken by the Air Component as it dispatched its attack aircraft to the locations in multiple bombing runs, some of which were executed simultaneously.

“At the Abu Radde Camps on 20 May 2020, a set of huts housing one of the notorious bandit leaders was taken out by air strikes with scores of the bandits killed and few seen fleeing with gunshot wounds towards the Dumburum forest. Similar air raids were executed at Hassan Tagwaye’s and Alhaji Auta’s Camps as well as at Maikomi with equally devastating effects. HUMINT reports later confirmed that no fewer than 135 bandits were neutralized by the series of air strikes at the various locations.”