Video: NAF precision strikes obliterate bandit IED hub, flatten Turba Hill hideout in Zamfara
Abdullateef Fowewe
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) delivered a crushing blow to armed bandits in Zamfara State, executing two precision airstrikes on Sunday, December 28 that destroyed a key improvised explosive device (IED) manufacturing hub and neutralised multiple bandit strongholds.
Video: NAF precision strikes obliterate bandit IED hub, flatten Turba Hill hideout in Zamfara
Under Operation FANSAN YAMMA Sector 2’s Air Component, NAF forces targeted Turba Hill and Kachalla Dogo Sule’s Camp in Tsafe Local Government Area, acting on “credible, multi-source intelligence,” as stated in an official NAF release.
At Turba Hill, a confirmed bandit hideout featuring a zinc-roofed operational structure, surveillance revealed “significant human activity.”
The strike resulted in a “direct hit,” with post-strike assessments confirming “the complete destruction of the structure and the neutralisation of several bandits.”
The second mission struck Kachalla Dogo Sule’s Camp, described as a “notorious bandit stronghold identified as a key IED manufacturing and operational hub.”
Linked to recent IED attacks along the Dan Sadau–Magami axis, the camp’s “multiple active structures” were obliterated, igniting “intense fires” that “destroyed the facilities and neutralised several bandits, effectively crippling the group’s IED production and deployment capability.”
These operations mark a “significant degradation of bandit networks,” particularly their IED capabilities, reaffirming the NAF’s “unwavering commitment, working in close coordination with other components of Operation FANSAN YAMMA, to deny criminal elements safe havens, degrade their combat effectiveness, and support ongoing joint efforts to restore lasting peace and security across the North-West.”
