The Nigerian Air Force says its Air Task Force (ATF) of
Operation LAFIYA DOLE , has destroyed another terrorists hideout in
Limberi, in Northern Borno.
The NAF said the ATF also neutralised activities of some
terrorists at Limberi, a cluster of small, co-located settlements made
up of mud and thatched roof structures located about 92Km North West of
Monguno in Northern Borno.
Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director
of Public Relations and Information, who disclosed this in a statement
on Monday in Abuja said the operation was conducted on Saturday.
The air strike was conducted on Jan.26,
following credible Human Intelligence (HUMINT) reports indicating that
the location was being used by the terrorists as a staging area.
This was later confirmed by
Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions which
tracked a group of terrorists heading to a location about 3km North of
the settlements, where they had converged.
The ATF therefore dispatched two Nigerian Air
Force (NAF) Alpha Jet aircraft to attack the location as the fighters
were emerging from their meeting venue; hitting them in successive
passes and recording successful strikes resulting in the destruction of
several structures, which were seen engulfed in flames.
Each pass was targeted at the various
compounds where the terrorists had dispersed resulting in the
neutralisation of several activities of terrorists, Daramola said.
