BY USMAN MOHAMMED, JUNE 10, 2025, 7:03 PM
At least 350 Boko Haram/ ISWAP fighters and commanders were executed during Eid Al-Adha.
Eid-ul-Adha is a Muslim festival observed worldwide with a morning prayer and followed by sacrifice, which this year held June 06.
The terrorists who were gathered to observe the morning prayers near Chiralia close to Agigum villages in Damboa Local Government of Borno were bombarded by the Super Tucano aircraft of the Nigerian Air Force.
A source who participated in damage assessment and asked not to be named because he was not authorised to speak said that after the bombardment, they discovered dead bodies of the terrorists including two commanders.
'They were assembled to observe the two Rakat prayers, and all of a sudden, the Super Tucano Jet of the Nigerian airforce appeared and opened fire on them.'
He said that while residents embarked on assessing the damage, 'We found out that Abu Dauda and Ya Muhammad were also executed,' the source said.
The Nigerian Air Force, in a press statement on Monday, also said that an operation conducted by Operation Hadin Kai destroyed a Boko Haram/ ISWAP training ground in the Lake Chad region.
The facility was destroyed in an air interdiction mission targeting a major terrorist enclave in Bukar Meram on the southern flank of the Lake Chad region near Marte and separately in Damboa.
It said several Boko Haram /ISWAP terrorists were neutralized, including the destruction of key logistics infrastructure, including supply vehicles, weapons storage sites, and makeshift shelters.
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