According
to Major General John Eneche, Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, in a
statement in Abuja on Tuesday, the airstrikes were carried out on 16 August
which led to the death of scores of terrorists in their hideouts at Tumbuma
Baba and Boboshe.
Scores
of Boko Haram terrorists have died after Nigeria’s military airstrikes hit
their hideout in Lake Chad and Sambisa Forest, Borno State.
The
attack was carried out by the Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole.
Eneche
stated that the airstrikes were carried out on the first day of missions of a
new subsidiary Operation codenamed “HAIL STORM”.
He
said the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) fighter jets dispatched by the ATF to attack
the location scored devastating hits on the settlement, killing several of the
terrorists and destroying their structures.
Eneche
added that several terrorists were similarly neutralized and some of their
dwellings destroyed at Boboshe, a village along the river line on the Eastern
part of the Sambisa Forest, as the NAF jets took turned in engaging the
location.
He said the nation’s
Armed Forces, operating in concert with other security agencies and
stakeholders, would sustain its efforts to rid the North East of all terrorists
and other criminal elements.
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