No fewer than 160 members of Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād, otherwise known as Boko Haram, were killed and their hidden camps destroyed
No fewer than 160 members of Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād, otherwise known as Boko Haram, were killed and their hidden camps destroyed following a wave of airstrikes conducted by Nigerian Air Force fighter jets in Borno and Yobe States.
Sources, according to Zagazola Makama, a Security Analyst and a Counter-Insurgency Expert in the Lake Chad region, revealed that the target in Bulabulin along Komadugu-Yobe River was established as a major hub of the Boko Haram activities from where the terrorists recently coordinated attacks on local communities of Nguro Kayaya of Gaidam LGA, which led to the killing of 16 persons and another IED attack on mourners, who went to conduct burial for the 16 victims of the first attack.
He said the airstrikes were synchronized with the ground troops in the area for maximum effect, recording devastating hits on the Boko Haram hideout and killing more than 100 of their fighters, destroying two gun trucks and some structures.
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