Nigerian military aircraft killed about 300 Boko Haram Islamist militants in a night attack on Aug. 19, Chief of Air Staff Sadiq Abubakar said.
The air force had targeted militants where they had massed in preparation to mount an attack, Abubakar said on Monday while addressing troops in the northeastern city of Maiduguri. “We are very happy to note that about 300 of them will not be available to commit any evil again.”
Boko Haram militants are in the seventh year of a violent campaign to impose their version of Islamic law on Africa’s most populous country of about 180 million people.
