A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), has launched attack on the Boko Haram’s vehicle workshop in the Sambisa general area in Borno state, destroying the vehicles with all the occupants in them.
The Director of Public Relations and Information of the Nigerian Air Force, Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya, in a statement today, Wdednesday, said that the operation was carried out yesterday, January 15 by NAF Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platform which had previously discovered that the vehicles were parked in the location.
The statement said that after the discovery, a NAF RPA was detailed to conduct armed reconnaissance in search of the vehicles and terrorists around the location, which was apparently being used as a vehicle workshop.
It said that the RPA discovered that Boko Haram motorcycles and vehicles, including their Commander’s vehicle were parked in the targeted area even as several terrorists were seen moving intermittently within the targeted area.
“The subsequent air strike by the NAF RPA resulted in the immediate destruction of the vehicles in the targeted location, killing all the BHTs inside it, as no survivors were seen scampering from the location after impact.”[myad]
