Rain of Bullets on Terrorists as Troops Raid Sambisa, Destroy Camp of ISWAP Leader Fiya Ba Yuram
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Rain of Bullets on Terrorists as Troops Raid Sambisa, Destroy Camp of ISWAP Leader Fiya Ba Yuram
By Alabidun Shuaib Abdulrahman
The Nigerian troops, have weekend taken battle to the enclave of Fiya Ba Yuram, a daredevil leader of ISWAP in Sambisa Forest.
The daring air operation, it was gathered, led to the killing of scores of ISWAP terrorists.
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PRNigeria reports that the raid at Fiya Ba Yuram’s enclave followed a credible and actionable intelligence by the Air Component of Operation of Hadin Kai, which revealed that terrorists were gathering for an undisclosed mission.
An intelligence military source said that air strikes were then authorized and carried out on the location, following the intelligence.
He said: “An assessment of the location after the strikes revealed it to be successful, though it remained unconfirmed if Fiya Ba Yuram was among the terrorists neutralized in the strikes”.
Fiya Ba Yuram is said to be the current Leader of ISWAP at Sambisa forest. He took over the leadership of the ISWAP insurgent group, following the killing of Boko Haram Leader, Abubakar Shekau, last year.
Meanwhile, similar air strikes were also undertaken in the Tunbuns near Lake Chad after suspected terrorists’ activities were observed in the area believed to be a training camp for ISWAP fighters.
“The targets were subsequently acquired and engulfed in flames all after. The aftermath of the airstrike revealed that pandemonium broke out as the remnant of surviving terrorists took cover under nearby trees which were later struck by the aircraft,” the officer disclosed.
When contacted, the NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet confirmed the strikes stating that, “Yes strikes were carried out on some specific targets in the Tunbuns and Sambisa with varying degrees of successes recorded. The NAF won’t however be drawn into the details of those neutralized.”
