The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has commenced an intensive bombardment of logistics bases used by Boko Haram militants in their Sambisa forest hideouts in northeast part of the country. The attacks resulted in a large part of the settlement being engulfed in fire, destroying the insurgents’ structures and neutralizing the fleeing ones, the spokesperson added. According to him, four NAF fighter aircraft took turns to attack structures occupied by insurgents’ elements in the settlement. He said previous Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions by the force platforms had revealed Kolaram to be an active Boko Haram Terrorists’ location from where the terrorists had launched attacks on government surface forces in Northern Borno. Boko Haram has been blamed for the death of more than 20,000 people and displacing of 2.3 million others in Nigeria since 2009.

Source: Pakistan Today December 16, 2017 13:07 UTC