{"id":274570,"date":"2020-10-26T22:46:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T21:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=274570"},"modified":"2020-10-26T22:47:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T21:47:15","slug":"nigerian-army-bombs-bandits-camps-kills-scores-of-fighters-in-kaduna-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=274570","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Army bombs bandits\u2019 camps, kills scores of fighters in Kaduna [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"
Troops of the Land and Air component of operation THUNDER STRIKE have bombarded bandits\u2019 camps in the Yadi and Kufai Shantu areas of Giwa Local Government Area (LGA) in Kaduna State.<\/p>\n

Major General John Enenche, the Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.<\/p>\n

According to Enenche, the operation was executed on 24 October 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Land and Air Components of Operation THUNDER STRIKE have neutralized scores of armed bandits in a joint offensive operation to clear identified bandits\u2019 camps in the Yadi and Kufai Shantu areas of Giwa Local Government Area (LGA), Kaduna State.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe operation was executed on 24 October 2020 on the heels of credible Human Intelligence reports as well as a series of aerial surveillance missions that led to the identification of the hideouts of a notorious bandits\u2019 leader and his fighters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first wave of the Air Component\u2019s airstrikes, which involved seven Nigerian Air Force (NAF) aircraft undertaking twelve missions in a total of twenty-three sorties, commenced at dawn and targeted a cluster of huts housing notorious armed bandits\u2019 leader, named Buhari Halilu.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe attack aircraft destroyed some of the target structures and neutralized several bandits,\u201d the statement read in part.<\/p>\n

Watch the video\u2026.<\/p>\n

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OPERATION THUNDER STRIKE: LAND AND AIR COMPONENTS CLEAR BANDITS\u2019 LOCATIONS IN KADUNA STATE, NEUTRALIZE SCORES OF BANDITS AT YADIhttps:\/\/t.co\/3v7XF98oI3 pic.twitter.com\/6i3p9JfTX4<\/a><\/p>\n

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Troops of the Land and Air component of operation THUNDER STRIKE have bombarded bandits\u2019 camps in the Yadi and Kufai Shantu areas of Giwa Local Government Area (LGA) in Kaduna State. Major General John Enenche, the Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. According to Enenche, the operation was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":274571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[9869,297,5730,218],"class_list":["post-274570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-banditry","tag-birnin-gwari","tag-el-rufai-2","tag-kaduna"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/274571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}