The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) conducted airstrikes in Katsina state, killing thirty terrorists.
On May 27, airstrikes were carried out at a terrorist kingpin’s hideouts in Bakai, Bakarya, and Yartsintsiya in the Kankara Local Government Area of the state.
Air Vice Marshal Edward Gabkwet, the NAF’s spokesperson, revealed 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.”