Military bombards Sambisa forest, Gwoza

TROOPS of 7 Division of Nigerian Army in a combine coordinated ‘ground and aerial bombardments;” Thursday cleared many terrorists from their Sambisa Forest enclave, including parts of Gwoza town that was captured by Boko Haram on August 6, 2014.

In flushing out of insurgents, training camps and logistics dumps located in various parts of the forest were targeted and destroyed in the early hours of Thursday.

The Director of Defense Information, Maj-Gen. Chris Olukolade in statement issued Thursday in Abuja, said: “More terrorists die as the air campaign gets results in both Sambisa forest and parts of Gwoza that was captured last August by terrorists.”

On how the terrorists were flushed out, Olukolade in the statement said:

“A concerted air campaign by the Nigerian Air Force is ongoing in furtherance of the mission to clear terrorists from all their enclaves.

“The air strikes which today targeted the training camps and logistics dumps of the terrorists in Sambisa forests and parts of Gwoza have been highly successful as it achieved the aims with required precision.  The death of a large number of terrorists has been recorded while many others are also scampering all over the forest and out of the struck bases. ”

Olukolade said details of casualty will be determined in subsequent phases of the operation. 

Meanwhile, ”the strikes continue in other locations of the theatre heralding the advance of troops and other elements of the mission,” he said.