Nigerian bandits kill a minimum of twenty

Nigerian bandits kill a minimum of twenty

AFP . Kano, Nigeria |
Update: 17:42, May 22, 2019
  

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Bandit gunmen have killed a minimum of twenty individuals in separate attacks in northwestern Nigeria, police aforesaid weekday, the newest violence within the restive region of metropolis.

Armed bandits on motorcycles stormed into a farming village on Tues, spraying the individuals with gunshot, metropolis state police representative Gambo Isah aforesaid.

"They killed eighteen," Isah aforesaid.

That attack happened on at Yargamji village in Batsari district, some fifty kilometres (30 miles) from the urban center metropolis.

A protection militia from another village then pursued the bandits, ending in a very gun battle within the forest.

Police aforesaid the bodies of 2 militia members shot dead were brought back and buried from that fight, however residents aforesaid a lot of individuals were killed.

"We lost eleven people that visited fight the bandits within the bush," resident Sada Iro aforesaid.

There had conjointly been attacks in a very near village referred to as Mara Zamfarawa, within which 5 residents were killed, Iro said.

Katsina state, 350 kilometres (220 miles) north of Nigeria's capital Abuja, has suffered from a string of violent attacks in recent months.

The gunmen, United Nations agency seem to require money and haven't any acknowledged ideologic agenda, have administered perennial raids on villages, stealing Bos taurus and food, burning homes and capture for ransom.

Rural communities have obsessed arms to defend themselves.