Air Force jets
The Nigerian Air Force said its Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation
Lafiya Dole has destroyed a Boko Haram Terrorists’ (BHT) logistics base,
along with some vehicles, at Tumbun Sale in northern Borno.
Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information said the operation was carried out on Tuesday.
” The operation was conducted on Oct.23 after Intelligence,
Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions revealed the presence of
some BHT vehicles and several fighters camouflaged under thick
vegetation within the area, where the BHTs had converged in order to
launch attacks against own troops’ positions,” he said.
” Accordingly, the ATF scrambled 2 Nigerian Air Force (NAF)
Alpha Jet aircraft, supported by an ISR platform, to attack the target
area in multiple waves,” he said.
Daramola said that the first wave of attacks recorded direct hits
on a suspected BHT ammunition/fuel dump, sending it up in flames.
He said that subsequent air strikes also resulted in the
destruction of some vehicles and killing of several Boko Haram
terrorists, adding that the few surviving BHTs, that were seen fleeing
the area, were mopped-up in follow-up attacks.
The spokesman said that the NAF, working in concert with land
forces, would sustain the tempo of operations with a view to destroying
all remnants of the terrorists on the fringes of Lake Chad and other
areas in Northern Borno.
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