NATIONAL: Troops kill 82 bandits in Katsina, Zamfara

TROOPS of Operation Hadarin Daji have gunned down 82 bandits in Katsina and Zamfara States.

Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. John Enenche, said in a statement today: “No fewer than 67 bandits, armed with very high calibre weapons, including Anti-Aircraft guns, have been neutralised and several others injured in air interdiction missions executed by the Air Component of Operation Hadarin Daji at Birnin Kogo Forest in Katsina State.”

Titled, ‘Operation Hadarin Daji: Air components neutralises scores of bandits in airstrikes at Birnin Kogo forest and Ajjah forest in Zamfara’, the statement continued, “In the same vein, about 15 bandits were eliminated in airstrikes conducted by the Air Component at Ajjah Forest in Zamfara State.

“Both airstrikes were carried out on 23 November 2020, sequel to credible human intelligence reports as well as aerial surveillance missions that led to the identification of the two forest hideouts, which housed scores of the bandits along with hundreds of rustled cattle.”