Information has it that the Boko Haram terrorists who attacked the town of Madagali, where they hoisted their flags after sacking the residents have suffered heavy casualty when a Nigerian Airforce Alpha-jet fighter plane dropped several bombs at them, according to a security officials.
Reports gathered from top security sources in both Borno and Adamawa states said that while soldiers in the area engaged the terrorists in hours of shootout, an order was sent across for the ground troops to retreat, as the Airforce Alpha-jet was on its way to tackle the insurgents.
Shortly after the troops withdrew, the airforce plane arrived Madagali where it dropped several bombs that destroyed four of the armoured tanks in custody of the Boko Haram, and killed several members of the insurgents at a spot between Madagali and Gulak towns.
An official of the Nigerian police mobile force, who managed to escape the attack said that only two of the six armoured tanks that the Boko Haram gunmen brought to Madagali were able to make it into Madagali, because the airforce jet couldn’t drop bombs on it while within the crowded civilian settlement.
Though many residents of Madagali town had to flee from the town during the attack, the over 4,000 displaced Gwoza refugees that are camping at a primary school in Madagali were not affected.
“Immediately after the troops had withdrawn, the jet came and engaged them by destroying four of the tanks and killed several of them outside Madagali; but unfortunately, two of the tanks found their ways into the town and the jet could not fire at them because of the civilians within”, said the police source who pleaded anonymity.
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