Nigerian Air Force have killed no fewer than 30 terrorists in airstrikes in Katsina State.
The airstrikes, according to the AirForce, were carried out on May 27 at a terrorist kingpin’s hideouts in Bakai, Bakarya, Yartsintsiya in Kankara Local Government Area of the state.
NAF’s spokesperson, Air Vice Marshal Edward Gabkwet, said in a statement on Wednesday, that credible intelligence confirmed that the terrorist kingpin, Babura, “narrowly escaped” the airstrikes.
Gabkwet said, “Similar air strikes were also carried out by the Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai on the same day at Tumbun Fulani, near Lake Chad, against terrorists at a once abandoned hideout.
“The strikes were authorized after Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance missions observed a pattern that was consistent with the relocation of terrorists to new hideouts and movement of their logistics.”
