The Nigerian Air Force, says Air Task Force, of Operation DIRAN MIKIYA has destroyed another armed bandits’ hideout and neutralised several of their fighters near Doumbourou Hill in Zamfara. Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, who announced this in Abuja, said the operation was carried out on Wednesday. “Accordingly, the ATF scrambled two Nigerian Air Force attack helicopters, supported by an ISR platform, to engage the bandits and destroy their compound. “The second wave was sequenced to engage the armed bandits as they re-emerged out of their hiding places, thus inflicting further fatalities on them,” he said. Daramola said that credible HUMINT sources later revealed that the leader of the group was among those killed during the attack.

Source: Punch January 04, 2019 09:00 UTC