No fewer than 25 suspected bandits have been killed in an operation carried out by Nigerian Air Force (NAF) in continuation of its campaign against banditry.
\nThe Air Force successfully attacked and destroyed a bandits\u2019 logistics base at Ajia and Wonaka in Birnin Magaji Local Government Area of Zamfara.
\nThe attacks were carried out by the Air Task Force (ATF) for Operation DIRAN MIKIYA, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja.
\nHe said the ATF killed dozens of the bandits at Ajia and Wonaka in Birnin Magaji Local Government Area of Zamfara.
\nDaramola explained that the operation was executed sequel to Human Intelligence (HUMINT) reports indicating that the bandits were using a compound within Ajia as a logistics store to support their operations.
\n\u201cConsequently, the ATF dispatched a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Alpha Jet, supported by an Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platform, to attack the compound scoring accurate strikes on the target and causing it to erupt into flames, which engulfed the structures and resulted in the neutralisation of some of the bandits,\u201d he said.
\nThe spokesman said few survivors, seen fleeing the vicinity of the target area, were taken out in follow-on attacks while others, who managed to escape the area, were tracked to Wonaka and equally neutralised.
\n\u201cIndependent HUMINT sources subsequently confirmed that more than 25 bandits were neutralised in the attacks on the two locations.
\n\u201cThe NAF, working in close coordination with sister Services and other security agencies, will sustain its operations to neutralise the bandits and deny them freedom of action in the North West,\u201d he said. (NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No fewer than 25 suspected bandits have been killed in an operation carried out by Nigerian Air Force (NAF) in continuation of its campaign against banditry. The Air Force successfully attacked and destroyed a bandits\u2019 logistics base at Ajia and Wonaka in Birnin Magaji Local Government Area of Zamfara. The attacks were carried out by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}