{"id":382728,"date":"2021-08-11T06:28:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T05:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=382728"},"modified":"2021-08-11T06:29:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T05:29:18","slug":"troops-attack-bandits-camps-in-niger-eliminate-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=382728","title":{"rendered":"Troops attack bandits&#8217; camps in Niger, eliminate scores"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The air and ground components of Operation Gama Aiki (OPGA) of the Nigerian military have eliminated several bandits in Niger.<\/p>\n<p>The two-day offensive on the criminals\u2019 hideouts led to the death of scores.<\/p>\n<p>The operation followed intelligence on the location of camps at Jasuwan Garba-Urege axis in Niger.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) deployed Agusta 109 and EC 135 gunships to the area.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft took turns in engaging the targets with rockets, while fleeing bandits were fired with cannons.<\/p>\n<p>A military source told PRNigeria that about 70 bandits and logistics bases were destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe operation occurred on August 5. Similar operations were executed on 6 August 21 by the air component at Kwawu and Uzawo in Niger State\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(DailyPost)<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The air and ground components of Operation Gama Aiki (OPGA) of the Nigerian military have eliminated several bandits in Niger. The two-day offensive on the criminals\u2019 hideouts led to the death of scores. The operation followed intelligence on the location of camps at Jasuwan Garba-Urege axis in Niger. The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) deployed Agusta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":382729,"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":[1],"tags":[30,9869,550],"class_list":["post-382728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-arewa","tag-banditry","tag-kidnapping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382728","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=382728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/382729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}