Nigeria Security: Scores of Bandit Kills As Military Hit Their Camp At Kuduru Forest

By Lazarus Zakaa, Abuja.

The Military High Command, on Saturday, said that, the Air Component of Operation THUNDER STRIKE has neutralized several armed bandits at their camp in the Kuduru Forest area of Kaduna State.

This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Saturday by the Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, DMO, Major General John Eneche.

Gen Eneche disclosed that the operation was achieved through air strikes carried out on 13 August 2020 on the heels of intelligence reports indicating the convergence of members of an Ansaru Terrorist Sect-linked bandits group, led by one Mallam Abba, at the location.

According to him, “aerial surveillance missions conducted over the area also observed several bandits, some wielding weapons, in the forest”.

He further explained that Nigerian Air Force (NAF) jets and helicopter gunships were therefore tasked to attack the location.

” Several of the bandits were killed as the attack aircraft strafed the area, while others attempting to escape were mopped-up in follow-on attacks”, he said.