NAF destroys terrorists’ IED factory in Borno
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) reports that the Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai successfully destroyed a terrorist Improvised Explosive Device (IED) factory located in Grazah, deep within the Mandara Hills of Borno.
This update was provided by the Director of Public Relations and Information, AVM Edward Gabkwet, in a statement released on Thursday in Abuja.
Gabkwet highlighted that the air strikes, executed on August 2nd, were a direct response to recent assaults on innocent civilians orchestrated with IEDs and suicide bombers.
The operation followed intelligence that identified a potential IED manufacturing site and a storage area for other logistical support.
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According to him, for some time now, this IED factory was suspected to have been relocated, first from Gwoza to Timbuktu Triangle in Sambisa Forest and finally berthing at Grazah in the Mandara Hills.
“Frequent relocation of IED factories has been attributed to the enormous fire power on the terrorists’ enclaves by the combined efforts of the entire security apparatus of the theatre of operation.
“The IED factory location at Grazah had been under surveillance for weeks with various installations observed and activities of armed terrorists in the area found to be consistent with those protecting a strategic location.
“Additionally, two gun trucks were sighted tucked under a large tree near the suspected IED factory.
“These findings thus necessitated the need for an air strike on the location in order to destroy the suspected IED factory and neutralise the terrorists,’’ he said.
Gabkwet said the targets were acquired and effectively destroyed, adding that the thick cloud of smoke that followed the air strikes confirmed the destruction of the IED factory and the gun trucks.
Proofreading by Fa’izatu Aliyu Doma, Journalist at Neptune Prime.
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