Over 100 escaping bandits are killed by NAF fighter jets in Kebbi

During a series of airstrikes in Kebbi state, the Nigeria Air Force, NAF, personnel of Operation Hadarin Daji are said to have bombed over 100 bandits.

The coordinated airstrikes were launched at the bandits on Wednesday afternoon as they passed through Sageko Malekachi hamlet in the state, according to Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency journal focused on the Lake Chad region.

According to the publication’s military sources, the forces responded to information that the bandits were gathering in Madada village, in the Maru LGA of Zamfara state, in preparation to assault communities in Kebbi.

The thieves, who drove motorcycles, chose to turn around midway after learning that air force forces were aware of their movement, according to Zagazola.

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In a subsequent operation that lasted for more than an hour, the army caught up with the bandits in the village of Dan Mani and bombed almost 100 of them.

According to Zagazola, the troop’s ground squad also pursued the evading bandits and killed 17 of them.

After the airstrikes, 17 bikes were destroyed, but one damaged Ak-47 rifle and 17 rounds of 7.2 MM special ammunition were found.

The chief of defence staff (CDS), Christopher Musa, has ordered troops to engage Boko Haram terrorists head-on rather than waiting for them to attack first.

Tuesday, the CDS told soldiers of Operation Hadin Kai in the Maimalari cantonment in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, that a soldier is not complete until they have killed at least one Boko Haram fighter.