Scores of Boko Haram militants killed in Nigerian military airstrikes
Abuja/Xinhua: Scores of suspected Boko Haram militants were killed and their hideouts destroyed when Nigerian military airstrikes hit targets inside the Sambisa forest in the country's northeast region, a military spokesman said on Thursday.
In a statement John Enenche, the military's spokesperson said a meeting venue of the militants and a few other structures belonging to them in an area known to be Kacha Korle in the Sambisa forest were completely destroyed during the air raid which was carried out on Wednesday.
The Sambisa forest is generally known as Boko Haram's largest training camp in the Nigerian northeast region.
Enenche said military aircraft had engaged in successive passes leading to the destruction of some of the structures as well as the neutralization of scores of the suspected terrorists.
Since 2009, Boko Haram has been trying to establish an Islamist state in northeastern Nigeria, and carrying out attacks in countries in the Lake Chad Basin, including Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Benin, and Niger, the United Nations said.
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