MORE than 100 bandits have been reportedly killed by the airstrikes of the Air Component of Operation Hadarin Daji – OPHD, Zamfara State.
The bandits in large numbers on Tuesday were moving from a forest in the Maru Local Government Area ofZamfara State to Kebbi State with the intention of attacking villages within the area.
The Nigerian Air Force airstrikes engaged and targeted the terrorist group, neutralised on Tuesday and burnt over 100 of them with their motorcycles while several others sustained various degrees of injuries.
The mass burial of the slain terrorists was reportedly conducted in the Sangeko forest in Niger State and Babban Doka in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State.
