According to Colonel Timothy Antigha, the mission was achieved through combined air and artillery bombardments conducted on May 5.
“The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) and other coalition members including the Nigerien Air Force and Air Task Force of Operation LAFIYA DOLE neutralized about 48 ISWAP fighters and destroyed their camps in a joint air and artillery bombardment.
“The mission was executed by the Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE in conjunction with Nigerien Air Force and Artillery Regiment of Sector 3 of the MNJTF at Dumba and Location Charlie on the fringes of the Lake Chad in the early hours of Tuesday, May 5, 2020.
“The joint interdiction missions, which have set the ISWAP elements in disarray, were conducted on the heels of impeccable intelligence reports from multiple sources, including Allied partners, confirming that large numbers of terrorists had assembled in the vicinity of Dumba and had commenced an advance in their vehicles to attack nearby troops’ locations.
“Consequently, the Air Task Force attack aircraft supported by Nigerien Surveillance platform were scrambled to take out the mobile ISWAP elements at their harbour location, in 2 waves of bomb and rocket strikes leading to the neutralization of several of the terrorists,” the statement read.
