Nigeria’s air force stated on Wednesday it had ordered an inquiry after a navy training plane crashed in the restive northern kingdom of Kaduna, claiming 2 lives.

At least 4 Nigerian army aircraft had been concerned in lethal crashes on the grounds in the ultimate years, such as one which killed the nation’s military leader and 10 other soldiers on board.

A Super Mushshak trainer went down on an army base on Tuesday evening, killing the 2 pilots on board, the air force stated in a declaration.

It said airforce chief Oladayo Amao had set up an investigation board “to determine the immediate and remote causes of the crash.”

Soldiers are deployed in the northwest and central Nigeria where they are battling heavily armed criminal gangs known locally as bandits.

Kaduna in particular has been the epicenter of the attacks by the armed gangs.

Last month, a Nigerian passenger train was attacked with explosives, leaving eight dead and dozens kidnapped.

The assault on the train between the capital Abuja and Kaduna city changed into a prime escalation of the security challenges wracking Africa’s maximum populous state of some 215 million humans

Nigerian troops are amongst different challenges additionally scuffling with a thirteen-year-old jihadist insurgency inside the northeast and a separatist agitation in the southeast.