About 49 BHT, also known as Jam'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jih'd, were killed in the Sambisa forest, Borno State, by two Super Tucano fighter planes of the Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai during precise air raids on three Boko Haram strongholds.
According to sources, the Air Task Force carried out many airstrikes on the terrorist camps in Bama Local Government Area known as Gargash, Minna, and Gazuwa on Tuesday, August 30, and Wednesday, August 31, 2022.
According to the source, on August 30, 2022, airstrikes in Gargash were directed at a terrorist moving truck, which resulted in the death of all of its occupants.
The source added that the combat aircraft took another turn attacking targets at another location given as Minna, scoring crucial hits on the hideouts leading to the neutralization of several Boko Haram fighters while others escaped with bullets wounds.
“On August 31, another air strike was conducted in Gazuwa after intelligence surveillance revealed large presence of the fighters who were engaging in some sort of transactions”.
“The ATF, therefore, detailed its fighter jets to attack the two location, killing scores of the terrorist and destroying their equipment, some of which were seen engulfed in flames” he said.
Zagazola Makama, a counterinsurgency expert and security analyst in the Lake Chad region, corroborated the attack and reported that about 29 terrorists were neutralised in Gazuwa, four fighters were murdered in a truck in Gargash, and 16 more fighters met their demise in Minna.
The source stated that the Nigerian Air Force will continue its offensives against the terrorists in the North-East, working in tandem with surface forces.
Remember how Air Marshal Oladayo Amao, the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), instructed Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Operational Commanders to "show no mercy" and use all available firepower against terrorists responsible for insecurity in the nation after President Muhammadu Buhari ordered Military High Command to go all out and put an end to the antics of terrorists and bandits.