Airstrikes conducted by the Air component of Operation Hadarin Daji of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on April 27, 2024, at Bello Turji’s camp in KAGARA forest located between Shinkafi in Zamfara and Isa Local Government Area in Sokoto, resulted in the killing of scores of fighters including three top bandit kingpins.
It was gathered that the Air strikes were conducted a few hours after the terrorists carried out a reprisal attack on a unit of the Civilian Joint Task Force at Forward Operating Base ISA, in response to the killing of seven bandits and recovery of seven AK47 rifles, 4x motorcycles and other items.
Eight Civilian Joint Task Force paid the supreme price during a gun battle with the bandits.
Intelligence sources told Zagazola Makama, a Counter Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst, in the Lake Chad region that acting on intelligence on the withdrawal of the attackers towards the axis of Shinkafi, the Air component immediately dispatched aircraft to track down the…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
