Air Force kills 300 Boko Haram members in Borno

The Nigerian Air Force has killed 300 members of Boko Haram during an air raid in the northern Borno.

The Director of Information and Public Relations of the NAF, Group Capt. Ayodele Famuyiwa, said in a statement on Tuesday that the insurgents were killed during a meeting at a point between Malam Fatori and the location of Nigerian troops at Kangarwa on August 19,2019.

Famuyiwa said that the NAF had carried out painstaking Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance missions to verify the information that commanders of the insurgent group were using the location as point for meetings in the night.

The NAF Spokesman said that the ongoing operation was designed degrade the capability of the insurgents who had fled to Northern Borno.

He said, “The Nigerian Air Force has recorded another major success in the ongoing counter-insurgency and counter terrorism operation against the Boko Haram Terrorist sect in the North-East.

“The current phase of intensified air operations over Northern Borno paid-off on the night of 19 August 2016 when the NAF, during an air attack, killed about 300 BHTs who had gathered to hold a meeting at a location between Malam Fatori and own troops location at Kangarwa.

“Prior to this fateful day the NAF, on 16 August 2016, had commenced series of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance missions to corroborate human intelligence that key BHT commanders gather at the said location to hold meeting at night.”