{"id":25218,"date":"2020-05-17T13:50:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T13:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=25218"},"modified":"2020-05-17T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T13:50:22","slug":"nigerian-fighter-jets-rain-bombs-on-boko-haram-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-fighter-jets-rain-bombs-on-boko-haram-video","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian fighter jets rain bombs on Boko Haram [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian military at the weekend shelled Boko Haram terrorists in Sambisa forest, Borno State.<\/p>\n<p>Footage of the operation has been released.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE carried out the bombardment.<\/p>\n<p>Cannon strikes hit multiple targets in the Boko Haram enclave.<\/p>\n<p>The raid followed Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) missions, which revealed that the terrorists had upscaled their activities.<\/p>\n<p>The ISR showed Boko Haram importing additional fighters and increasing their logistics stocks preparatory to attacks on troops\u2019 locations and surrounding civilian settlements.<\/p>\n<p>Overhead the target area, significant activity of the terrorists was observed in different parts of the settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, the ATF dispatched assets and a surveillance platform to engage the location.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) jets took turns to attack and neutralized many insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>Logistics facilities and other structures were also destroyed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VIDEO: Yagayaga Massive Air strikes on Boko Haram Location\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hrxfmioClWE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Nigerian military at the weekend shelled Boko Haram terrorists in Sambisa forest, Borno State. Footage of the operation has been released. The Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE carried out the bombardment. Cannon strikes hit multiple targets in the Boko Haram enclave. The raid followed Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":7624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,21],"tags":[45,243],"class_list":["post-25218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-video","tag-boko-haram","tag-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian fighter jets rain bombs on Boko Haram [Video] - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Nigerian military at the weekend shelled Boko Haram terrorists in Sambisa forest, Borno State.Footage of the operation\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-fighter-jets-rain-bombs-on-boko-haram-video\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerian fighter jets rain bombs on Boko Haram [Video]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Nigerian military at the weekend shelled Boko Haram terrorists in Sambisa forest, Borno State.Footage of the operation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-fighter-jets-rain-bombs-on-boko-haram-video\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-17T13:50:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/Nigerian-Air-Force-fighter-jet.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"635\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"412\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-fighter-jets-rain-bombs-on-boko-haram-video#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-fighter-jets-rain-bombs-on-boko-haram-video\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Nigerian fighter jets rain bombs on Boko Haram [Video]\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-17T13:50:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-fighter-jets-rain-bombs-on-boko-haram-video\"},\"wordCount\":160,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-fighter-jets-rain-bombs-on-boko-haram-video#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/Nigerian-Air-Force-fighter-jet.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Boko Haram\",\"Video\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"video\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-fighter-jets-rain-bombs-on-boko-haram-video#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-fighter-jets-rain-bombs-on-boko-haram-video\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-fighter-jets-rain-bombs-on-boko-haram-video\",\"name\":\"Nigerian fighter jets rain bombs on Boko Haram [Video] - 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