Air Component of Operation Whirl Punch on Saturday targeted terrorists' hideouts in Shiroro Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State...
of Niger State, killing numerous terrorists and demolishing their camps and hideouts in the wake of multiple terrorist attacks on villages and military locations in the state.
He said, “Air strikes carried out on Saturday, 27 April 2024, by the Air Component of Operation Whirl Punch targeted at terrorists’ hideouts in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State and against economic saboteurs in the Niger Delta region have yielded significant results. “Also, painstaking intelligence earlier gathered had confirmed that these same terrorists were responsible for the recent attacks on ground troops at Bassa Community as well as multiple Improvised Explosive Devices incidences along the Pandogari-Alawa Road within the same LGA.
“Similar air strikes were also carried out the same day in the Niger Delta region against economic saboteurs and oil thieves bent of illegally siphoning crude oil from mutilated pipelines while destroying the environment and ecosystems.
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