The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche has revealed in a statement on Saturday in Abuja that military air strikes has knocked out more terrorists’ hideouts in Borno.
Enenche said the air raids were carried out on Friday at Ngwuri Gana, along the Gulumba Gana-Kumshe axis and Tumbuma Baba on the fringes of Lake Chad, both in the Northern part of Borno.
He said the airstrikes were carried out under a new subsidiary Operation, tagged “Wutar Tabki II”.
According to him, a series of aerial surveillance missions had showed that the two locations were being used as staging areas where ISWAP leaders and their fighters meet to plan and launch attacks.
He said the attacks were coordinated using an enhanced force package of Nigerian Air Force (NAF) fighter jets and helicopter gunships.
According to him, the air attacks led to the destruction of some of the terrorists’ structures as well as the neutralisation of several ISWAP fighters.
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