Nigeria: NAF multiple Strikes Kill Scores  Boko Haram Insurgents in Borno

Nigeria: NAF multiple Strikes Kill Scores  Boko Haram Insurgents in Borno

By: Zagalola Makama

Multiple airstrikes by two Nigerian Air Force, NAF, Super Tukano jets, have  killed scores of Boko Haram terrorists at Shehutari and Mantari in Bama Local Government Area of Borno State, northeast Nigeria.

The terrorists were neutralised on Dec. 27, after intelligence which  revealed that they had assembled at Mantari to hold special prayers for the  fighters and Commanders killed in the Dec. 21 Air Strikes.

Sources with information on the successful operations told NEWSng that  severely injured members were being treated in located about 500m West of MANTARI village in Bama local government area of Borno state.

Bama local government which is a gateway to the dreaded Sambisa Forest is about 65km to Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.

Bama has been in occupation by Boko Haram Insurgents until nearly 2019 when civil authorities return after the Nigerian military retake the town in 2017. However the Insurgents have been coming by from time to time to attempt retaking of the local government, which is one of the biggest in Borno state.

An intelligence source told NEWSng that the renewed vigour in the military offensives under Operation Hadin Kai also caught the terrorists by surprise at Shehutari, as several terrorists met their waterloo.

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Several others were wounded while the surviving terrorists were seen scampering for safety into the thick trees in different directions.

The damaging  Air Strikes has resulted in the degradation of the capabilities of the Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād within the Sambisa forest. 

On Dec. 25, Boko Haram’s Amir Jaysh,Ali Ngulde sent some militant dellegation headed by Amir Muke from Mandara Moutains and Abu Hassana,to sympathise with the fighters. 

The AI was a major hit that obliterated hundreds of terrorists including top JAS KHAIDs ABBAH TUKUR, MAIMUSARI and BAKURA JEGA who were on a reinforcement mission and mobilising for attacks in the location.

Eight more fighters who sustained various degrees of injuries later died due to lack proper medical assistance. 

Further damage assessment indicated mass burial carried out by JAS within SAMBISA in presence top KHAIDs ABOU ISSA of KALA BALGE and ALI GANA of NGAURI. 

On December 27, Boko Haram terrorists conveyed some militant medical personnels on six motorcycles to Mantari camp of the terrorists, where they will be treating the wounded fighters but we’re caught in the airstrikes and death found them. 

Nigeria: NAF multiple Strikes Kill Scores  Boko Haram Insurgents in Borno