The Nigeria Airforce(NAF) jet has bombarded and destroyed several medical facilities and hospitals belonging to the Boko Haram and Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists in Borno State.
The medical facility located at Somalia near Sambisa Forest is beleived to be where the wounded and seriously sick terrorists receive medical treatment. It was destroyed by troops and airmen of the Land and Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai, following an intelligence report.
Daily Sun gathered that the operation which took place last Friday resulted in the killings of several terrorists and destruction of their hideouts.
This is just as the NAF operations to eliminate bandits and kidnappers operating in Niger, Kaduna, and Kastina states, have killed several criminals and destroyed their logistics bases in those states.
A military source told Daily Sun that, “despite the weather challenges like rainstorms and low clouds, the military’s intensive air and ground operations have persisted unabated across all the joint operating theatre.
“In the Northeast, the NAF aircraft under the Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai, while acting on credible intelligence, struck a target at Somalia in Sambisa Forest suspected to be a terrorist hospital and health care facility on September 9, 2022. Somalia, a location near Sambisa Forest, was believed to be where the terrorists have a medical facility where wounded fighters as well as those critically ill were attended to.
“After the air strikes, several structures were observed destroyed and numerous terrorists neutralised. Air Interdiction missions were also carried out at Abdallari, a terrorist enclave located in the North East of Maiduguri on September 10, 2022.
Several terrorists were also neutralised,and structures destroyed after the strike, hence, degrading their capacity to attack troops.
“In Niger and Kaduna states , the Air Component of Operation Whirl Punch has continued to carry out onslaught on the terrorists’ hideouts/safe havens to decimate, degrade and deny them freedom of action. For instance, strikes were undertaken in Kaduna on September 7, 2022, following series of intelligence from various sources on terrorists’ hideouts at Gidan Waya, in Chikun Local Government Area (LGA). There, the Air Component of Operation Whirl Punch discovered terrorists’ structures hidden under clusters of trees at the location with terrorists’ activities noticed within the vicinity. Subsequently, the targets were acquired and attacked with bombs. Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) footages and feedback from locals as well as Nigerian Army troops deployment within the location revealed that the terrorists’ hideouts were destroyed while several terrorists were neutralized or suffered varying degrees of injuries. Air Operations was also carried out on Sep 8, 2022, at Gaude, a terrorists’ hideout at Shiroro LGA after series of intelligence confirmed that terrorists usually gather at the location to plan their nefarious activities. Intelligence also disclosed that most attacks around Shiroro axis were mostly being orchestrated from Gaude and Kurebe. Consequently, the target was acquired with several terrorists observed at the location.”
NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Comodore Edward Gabkwet, said: “for the NAF, its ability to continually dominate troubled parts of the country in collaboration with the surface forces in order to eliminate terrorist elements and restore normalcy should never be in doubt.
“Nigerians are enjoined to continue to provide security agencies with credible intelligence that will enable them to track and neutralise the terrorists and all criminal elements, especially as schools across the nation prepare to resume.”
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