The Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar has said that about 300 Boko Haram members were killed by the Nigerian Air Force in a raid in Borno State.
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The Nigerian Air Force attacked many Boko Haram targets and eliminated several senior level terrorists. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.theeagleonline.com.ng as the source.
Shekau started the uprising in 2009 that has killed 20,000 people, driven more than 2.2 million from their homes, and spread across Nigeria’s borders.
Nigerian military has twice in the past claimed it killed the Boko Haram leader in previous operations, a claim which Shekau refuted in subsequent video releases.
The first of the Chibok schoolgirls to be rescued after being kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 has revealed that her time in captivity only strengthened her faith and expressed confidence that God will one day deliver her classmates, as well.
“The Boko Haram fighters were on four motorcycles, (and) three on each, and fired on houses while people were sleeping”, reported Damina Luka, resident of a nearby village.
Under Nigeria’s last president, Goodluck Jonathan, the United States had blocked arms sales and ended training of Nigerian troops partly over human rights concerns such as treatment of captured insurgents.
But the new administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has argued its human rights record has improved significantly enough to lift the blockade.
In April 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped 276 teenage girls from Chibok provoking a widespread outrage in Nigeria and around the world.
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The air strike was carried out on 19 August.
