A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) helicopter conveying personnel on medical outreach programme at Gwoza came under attack early today by members of the Boko Haram Terrorist (BHT) group.

Air Force spokesman, Group Captain, Ayodele Famuyiwa, in a statement said the Mi-17 helicopter was shot at severally by the insurgents.

However, there was no casualty except for an airman that sustained bullet wound.

The helicopter had departed from Maiduguri enroute the venue of the 2-day medical outreach programme in Gwoza when it came under attack by Boko Haram.

Continuing he said, “Nevertheless, the pilot was able to fly the helicopter safely to and from its destination to enable the outreach programme continue uninterrupted.

“Following the attack, the NAF immediately scrambled a fighter aircraft and helicopter gunship to the location between Bama and Gwoza to neutralise the threat.

“Intelligent report by ground troops confirmed scores of BHTs were killed, signifying that the air attack on the threat location was successful.

“Recall that the NAF has been conducting medical outreach in the North East as part of its humanitarian support to Internally Displaced Persons.

“The latest of this effort was in Gwoza. This follows a similar effort undertaken recently for IDPs in Lagos area”.

If the entire north easterners are not BHT how comes the war is still on? Upon all the killings and what have you. Waiting for fixticious figures they ll publish during census and next voters registration.

anoda news.....

Choi, bad news for haters.

They can't match the force of the great Nigerian military

Weldone NA

Thank you guys for the sacrifice

We appreciate you guys for everything

God bless NA

God Bless muhammadu Buhari

God Bless Federal Republic Of Nigeria

We are tire of these BH boys.

Instead of running, they are now attacking...

Sunnymatey:
If the entire north easterners are not BHT how comes the war is still on? Upon all the killings and what have you. Waiting for fixticious figures they ll publish during census and next voters registration.

Bro i reason with u.
It goes a deep length to show dat most nothern Muslims believe in d mission of boko haram. It also go a long to show how concerned northerners shud hold the past leaders who were from there responsible for not pursuing d course of education.
Quote me anywhere right from time immemorial different terrorist groups always spring up from d north d only difference with boko-haram is dat their targets are no more exclusively christians or churches but now Muslims and mosques are included.
If boko-haram is annihilated today, another group will spring up.
All am saying is dat, no matter wat anyone thinks what u sow today is wat u reap tomorrow. The evil dat men do will always come after dem

May d Lord grant victory to our army.

Here is the a variant of the attacked helicopter.