"**Approximately six companies of riflemen of the 5/8th Gorkha Rifles at Daru, elements of 14th Mechanised Infantry Battalion" . "*Nigeria" . "**Two Companies of the Nigerian Army" . "**8Mil Mi-8s" . "UNAMSIL" . "**3Mil Mi-35s" . "*One vehicle destroyed" . "20pxRevolutionary United Front" . "*Freetown successfully defended against RUF attack" . "Approximately 2000-5000 troops divided into 5 battalions" . "**2 Para (SF)" . "**One Quick Reaction Company of Mechanised Infantry and Paracommandos" . "**QRC of Mechanised Infantry" . "*Ground units and Airborne units" . "*United Kingdom" . "**2Chinooks" . "*Besieged UN Forces extracted" . "**Several Mortars and one Light Field Gun" . "**2 Companies of the Ghana Army" . "**2HAL Chetaks" . "*Several injuries due to shrapnel wounds, 33 men suffering from illness due to siege" . "**223 troops of 5/8th Gorkha Rifles besieged at Kailahun" . "No deaths, several injuries:" . "Approximately 2000-2500 troops" . "Operation Khukri was a unique multinational operation launched in the United Nations Assistance Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL), involving India, Ghana, Britain and Nigeria. The aim of the operation was to break the two-month-long siege laid by armed cadres of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) around two companies of 5/8th Gorkha Rifles Infantry Battalion Group at Kailahun by effecting a fighting break out and redeploying them with the main battalion at Daru."@en . "2000-07-16Z"^^ . "*Ghana" . "**18th Grenadiers" . . . "**One Company of engineers" . "**1C-130 Hercules" . "*Aircraft" . "Operation Khukri"@en . "*Reserves" . "*India" . .