Air Force kill bandits, leader in Zamfara forests

The Nigerian Air Force says more marauders have been murdered in their forts inside Zamfara state timberlands and in this manner spoke to remainders of the outlaws to surrender themselves and their weapons to the Government specialist. 

The representative of the Air Force, Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, said in an announcement that the assaults against the marauders were done after an Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance stages have built up the nearness of the criminals and their boss in the zone. 

The announcement peruses: " The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Air Task Force (ATF) for Operation DIRAN MIKIYA, on 15 and 18 August 2018, effectively corrupted a few distinguished forts of an infamous furnished highwayman boss. 

"The assaults, which were executed in help of ground troops in Sector 2 of Operation SHARAN DAJI, were arranged in light of dependable insight that the boss and his gathering of outfitted crooks were utilizing a relinquished grade school in SHAMASHALE and some improvised settlements in adjacent RUGU Forest in the Eastern piece of ZAMFARA State as bases for their activities. 

" The assault at SHAMASHALE was directed on 15 August 2018, after further corroborative Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions that uncovered the nearness of a few furnished brigands in the territory. 

" Accordingly, the ATF dispatched 2 battle helicopters to assault the area. Amid the assault, a few criminals conveying refined high gauge weapons were seen endeavoring to escape the region. Some were on bikes conveying AK-47 rifles and, as opposed to dropping their weapons and surrendering, endeavored to shoot at the helicopters; thus they were killed. 

" Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) directed on 16 August 2018 affirmed that the boss' principle safehouse had been extremely corrupted and human insight (HUMINT) sources later benefited photos of a portion of the killed marauders. Things recuperated from the furnished criminals incorporate 2 General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMGs), 2 AK 47 rifles, 100 rounds of 7.62mm ammo and 2 cell phones. 

" The bordering settlement camps inside RUGU Forest, which had prior been affirmed by HUMINT sources to be possessed by just scoundrels, were assaulted on 18 August 2018. A ground assault flying machine and 2 battle helicopters struck the camps in progressive waves; first focusing on the sanctuaries and after that executing take after on assaults to guarantee the risk postured to the neighborhood villagers was satisfactorily managed. 

" The ATF will keep on dominating the territory through equipped observation and air prohibition missions to totally wreck the outfitted marauders to guarantee an arrival to regularity in Zamfara and different States in the North West. 

" All people engaged with outfitted banditry in the region are in this manner encouraged to disavow savagery, surrender to security organizations and hand over their weapons."