Several bandits neutralized after military airstrike

The Nigerian military, in continuation of its sustained air campaign against armed bandits and other criminal elements, have neutralized unspecified number of the assistants at Dogon Dawa, along the strategic Niger–Kaduna–Zamfara border.

A report by a security expert, Zagazola Makama said the strike was executed after intelligence indicated that a large number of armed bandits had converged at the location to coordinate and plan a series of attacks against nearby communities.

“The precision engagement effectively struck the gathering, resulting in the neutralisation of a substantial number of the terrorists”, he said.

According to Makama, intelligence obtained following the operation also indicated that more than hundreds of motorcycles, believed to have been assembled for the planned offensive and mobility of the criminal elements, were present at the target area at the time of the strike.

Battle Damage Assessment, BDA, and follow-up intelligence further revealed that several surviving terrorists, many of them wounded, fled in disarray towards the forests between Shadadi and Ma’undu through the Mangwaro axis, abandoning their coordinated plans as the devastating effects of the air strike disrupted their operations.