Military Airstrikes Kill Scores of Bandits, Destroy Camp Along Niger–Kaduna–Zamfara Border
The Nigerian military has recorded another major operational success in its ongoing offensive against armed bandits, carrying out a precision air strike that dismantled a key bandit gathering at Dogon Dawa along the strategic Niger–Kaduna–Zamfara border.
Security sources disclosed that the operation followed credible intelligence indicating that scores of armed bandits had assembled at the location to coordinate and launch attacks on surrounding communities.
The sources said the Air Component executed a precision strike on the target, neutralising a significant number of the terrorists and disrupting their planned offensive.
According to intelligence gathered after the operation, more than 100 motorcycles, reportedly assembled to support the movement and operations of the criminal group, were at the location when the strike was carried out.
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Preliminary Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) and follow-up intelligence revealed that several surviving bandits, many of them wounded, fled in panic toward the forests between Shadadi and Ma’undu through the Mangwaro axis, abandoning their planned attacks.
Military sources said the operation dealt a major blow to the criminal network by disrupting its command and control structure, restricting its freedom of movement and significantly degrading its operational capability before the planned assaults could be executed.
The latest strike underscores the military’s continued reliance on intelligence-led operations and precision air power to target terrorist and bandit enclaves across the North-West and North-Central regions.
The operation also highlighted the growing coordination between intelligence agencies and the Air Component in identifying, tracking and engaging high-value terrorist and bandit targets, as security forces sustain pressure on criminal groups threatening peace and stability in the region.
By PRNigeria
