NANS raises alarm over repeated civilian deaths in air operations

The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Zone E stakeholders forum, has condemned a caller airstrike by the Nigerian Air Force that reportedly struck a engaged marketplace on the Borno-Yobe border, sidesplitting scores of civilians.
In a connection issued connected Sunday, the pupil assemblage described the incidental arsenic “tragic, avoidable, and unprofessional,” alleging that the airstrike mistakenly deed Jilli Market, a crowded play trading hub, alternatively of intended insurgent targets. The forum claimed that arsenic galore arsenic 200 radical were killed, with dozens others sustaining injuries.

The cognition was reportedly conducted nether Operation Hadin Kai, a subject run targeting insurgent groups successful the North-East, including Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province.

Signed by its secretary, Zakari Hashim,
NANS criticized what it described arsenic a nonaccomplishment successful quality gathering, people identification, and operational execution, noting that civilians proceed to carnivore the brunt of errors successful subject action.

It warned that repeated incidents of this quality rise superior concerns astir the information of residents successful conflict-affected communities.

While consoling the families of the victims and those injured successful the attack, galore of whom are receiving attraction successful hospitals successful Geidam and Damaturu, it expressed solidarity with res...