NAF fighter jets, helicopter gunships destroy camps, kill several bandits in Katsina forests

The Air Component of “Operation HADARIN DAJI” has destroyed some structures at bandits’ camps in Dunya Forest and neutralized scores of fighters at Birnin Kogo Forest both in Katsina State.

Confirming the report, Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Defence Headquarters, Major General John Enenche said the air raids were conducted on 23 and 24 November, 2020 on the heels of impeccable intelligence reports indicating that the two camps, with their clusters of huts, were among the locations being used by the terrorism-affiliated armed bandits to store their sophisticated weapons and plan attacks.

He said the aerial surveillance missions also established pattern-of-life evidence of the presence of black attire-wearing terrorists at the two locations.

Enenche said the Air Component dispatched an appropriate force package of Nigerian Air Force (NAF) fighter jets and helicopter gunships, which engaged the two locations in successive passes, destroying portions of the camps, including their storage facilities, which were seen engulfed in flames.

He said HUMINT sources later confirmed that no fewer than 37 bandits were neutralized at Dunya while many more were killed at Birnin Kogo.

Enenche said the Armed Forces of Nigeria and other security agencies remained resolute in the fight against banditry and other sundry crimes and would not relent until normalcy was restored to all troubled zones of the country.