BREAKING: Airstrikes Kill 30 Terrorists In Katsina

Nigerian Air Force (NAF) airstrikes in Katsina state have resulted in the deaths of thirty terrorists.

The airstrikes were carried out on May 27 at a terrorist kingpin’s hideouts in Bakai, Bakarya, Yartsintsiya in Kankara Local Government Area of the state.

NAF’s spokesperson, Air Vice Marshal Edward Gabkwet, announced this in a statement on Wednesday, May 29.

He said credible intelligence confirmed that the terrorist kingpin, Babura, “narrowly escaped” the airstrikes.

Gabkwet said: “Similar air strikes were also carried out by the Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai on the same day at Tumbun Fulani, near Lake Chad, against terrorists at a once abandoned hideout.

“The strikes were authorized after Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance missions observed a pattern that was consistent with the relocation of terrorists to new hideouts and movement of their logistics.”