NAF fighter jets kill Boko Haram insurgents

THE Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE, on Friday, killed some Boko Haram terrorists at Parisu and Takwala, both in Borno State.

This followed  the discovery, by NAF Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms, of activities of insurgents in the two locations.

The ATF had detailed two NAF Alpha Jet aircraft, armed with rockets and cannons, to interdict the locations.

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Later, NAF fighter aircraft  attacked the objectives with rockets and cannons and successfully engaged the remnants of the terrorists hibernating within the settlements and consequently killed them.

NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya, who confirmed  the story, said NAF would continue to deploy its platforms to conduct intensive ISR missions aimed at discovering the locations of possible remnants of Boko Haram terrorists in the entire North-East.