The Nigerian Army has confirmed that a military aircraft was on Friday hit by Islamic insurgents in Borno State in the on-going operations across northeastern Nigeria. The Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Chris Olukolade confirmed the attack and revealed that the aircraft managed to return to base after the encounter.
The Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Chris Olukolade had told journalists that Nigerian forces used jets and attack helicopters to bombard Islamist militant camps in the northeast on Friday, killing a number of insurgents.
Brigadier-General Olukolade said that several camps had been attacked, including the Sambisa game reserve in Borno State.
Asked for more details about the shot military plane, Brigadier-General Olukolade declined to give further details, saying more information would be given after mop-up operations on the ground.
“A number of insurgents have been killed. It is not just Sambisa, every camp is under attack. But we have not done the mopping up operations on the ground to determine the numbers killed,” Brig. Gen. Olukolade said.
Sambisa, a forest that spreads over a distance of 300sq km from Damboa up to Gwoza, Bama and the Cameroon border, has been a hideout and training camp of Boko Haram.
The military is trying to regain territory controlled by increasingly well-armed Boko Haram Islamist insurgents in the northeastern stronghold states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, following the declaration of a state of emergency in the area by President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday.
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