ISWAP attacks Boko Haram terrorists fleeing military airstrikes in Northeast
The Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists have attacked Boko Haram insurgents and families; fleeing military airstrikes in the Cingori/Yuwe axis of Bama Council in Borno state.
They were ambushed while attempting to seek refuge in one of their hideouts in Cina village on the fringe of Sambisa Forest.
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A counter-insurgency expert, in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama, stated, yesterday (Wednesday), in Maiduguri that the fleeing Boko Haram terrorists and families were among those that escaped the recent military airstrikes at Gazuwa, Sheruri and Mantari villages.
He said that the terrorists were fleeing from the joint operations of 199 Special Force and 222 Battalions, Civilian JTF and the Air Task Force (ATF), and Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK) that neutralized over 200 terrorists, including five commanders.
According to him, the attacks had forced hundreds of terrorists and their families to flee the bombed camps for safer havens in other hideouts of the forest.
ISWAP attacks Boko Haram terrorists fleeing military airstrikes in Northeast
