Operation Lafiya Dole: Military Airstrikes Destroy Terrorists Hideout, kill Scores In Sambisa Forest.
The Defence Headquarters says the Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole has killed scores of terrorists in an airstrike in Sambisa forest, Borno State.
The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, made this known in a press release on tuesday in Abuja.
According to the statement, the latest of these was achieved yesterday, 28 December 2020, at the ‘S’ Region in the heart of the Sambisa Forest in Borno State.
Gen. Enenche said the air strike, which was executed employing a force package of Nigerian Air Force (NAF) fighter jets, was carried out after series of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions revealed that the terrorists responsible for recent attacks in the Southern part of Borno and Northern part of Adamawa State had originated from the location.
Accordingly, the NAF attack aircraft engaged the target area in successive passes, leading to the destruction of some of their structures and logistics stores, including a suspected anti-aircraft gun station as the terrorists fired at the NAF aircraft.
“Several insurgents were also neutralized in the process.