The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has said that the Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole bombarded several Boko Haram terrorist camps in Zanari and Tunbun Rego, Borno State.
NAF’s director of public relations and information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, in a statement Tuesday in Abuja, said that the operation was carried out on Monday.
He said: “The NAF ATF of Operation Lafiya Dole has recorded further gains in the ongoing air interdiction operations designed to wipe out the remnants of Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) within the fringes of Lake Chad.
This occurred as the ATF on August 20 conducted air strikes on BHT camps at Zanari and Tunbun Rego in Borno State.
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“The air strikes at Zanari were planned and executed based on intelligence reports indicating that the BHTs had established a training camp in the village and were converging in an area prior to departing for an attack on own troops locations around the Lake Chad area.
“Accordingly, the ATF scrambled two NAF Alpha jet aircraft for a pre-emptive strike on two specified locations within Zanari, where the BHTs were assembled.”
Daramola said that the fighter aircraft acquired and attacked both locations, neutralising several BHTs, with only a few survivors seen fleeing the area, adding:
“These were later mopped up by follow-on rocket strikes. Similarly, another identified BHT rendezvous point and staging area on the outskirts of Tunbun Rego was also attacked and destroyed by the Alpha jets.”
