Nigeria: Airstrikes Kill 30 Terrorists in Katsina

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) conducted airstrikes in Katsina state, killing thirty terrorists.

On May 27, airstrikes were carried out at a terrorist kingpin’s hideouts in Bakai, Bakarya, and Yartsintsiya in the Kankara Local Government Area of the state.

Air Vice Marshal Edward Gabkwet, the NAF’s spokesperson, revealed this in a statement on Wednesday, May 29.

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He said 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 authorised 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.”

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