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Nigerian military airstrikes kill 195 Boko Haram terrorists, 5 commanders in Borno

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Posted: September 5, 2022 at 12:38 pm   /   by   /   comments (0)

Patrick Franca Abuo

The Nigerian Army troops of 199 Special Forces and 2p22 Battalions, Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) have killed 200 Boko Haram terrorists, including five commanders, in Sambisa Forest in Borno State.


In an operation in conjunction with the Nigerian Air Force, the military killed the terrorists top leaders identified as; Abou Hauwa, Amir Shettima, Akura Buri (Nakif), Abou Zainab and Abou Idris.


“An intelligence-led aerial and ground operations targeted the terrorists’ hideouts in the Gaizuwa border, comprising Gabchari, Sheruri, Mantari and Mallam Masari villages in Bama Local Council of Maiduguri in Borno State,” a source said.


The troops stormed the terrorists hideout at Gafchari, where they engaged the bandits in a gun battle, which led to killing over 30 insurgents, and others escaped with gunshot wounds into the forest.


The Air Task Force (ATF), in another coordination with the ground troops, he added, detailed two Super Tucano jets to conduct air interdiction missions against the terrorists.


This led to the killing of additional 70 fighters and drowning of many who tried to escape. “Similar strikes were also undertaken at Sheruri when the combat aircraft attacked another location of fighters deployed to stage an ambush against the ground troops,” and the Super Tucano scored a devastating hit, killing Buri and Hauwa and more than 63 of their foot soldiers, the source added.


“In Gazuwa, the soldiers destroyed two vehicles and the home of Abou Iklilima, which used to be a hideout for insurgents’ leaders. Other makeshift tents and properties belonging to terrorists were also destroyed.” while few of the surviving terrorists, who returned on 3 September to recover terrorists’ bodies, were able to retrieve 36 additional bodies in the river near Gabchari village,” he noted.


Meantime, while the terrorists were preparing to conduct mass burial for their dead commanders, the military authorities also deployed Super Tucano to the location and neutralised most of them. “This has completely degraded the capabilities of the terrorists in Sambisa Forest and the Lake Chad region,” noted the Theatre Commander of OPHK, Maj-Gen. Christopher Musa, in Maiduguri.


The soldiers in North West, according to Brig-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, in the ensuing shoot-out, killed three of the terrorists and recovered two AK-47 rifles, nine magazines, seven Baofeng communication radios, one Tecno mobile phone, 120 rounds of 7.62 mm special ammunition, one power generator and a motorcycles.

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