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Bandits kill at least 20 in northwest Nigeria's Katsina state, say police

Published 10/06/2020, 17:05
Updated 10/06/2020, 17:06
© Reuters.

By Ardo Hazzad
BAUCHI, Nigeria June 10 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed at least
20 people in attacks in the northwestern Nigerian state of
Katsina, police and residents said on Wednesday.
Hundreds of people have been killed in the last year by
criminal gangs carrying out robberies and kidnappings in
northwest Nigeria. In May, the United Nations said the violence
had forced about 23,000 refugees to across the border to the
north into Niger.
Around 200 attackers travelled on motorcycles to the village
of Kadisau, in Katsina, on Tuesday, a police spokesman said,
adding that 20 people were killed after the attackers opened
fire on locals who tried to resist their attempts to loot the
village.
Three locals told Reuters 30 people were buried following
the attack.
Such attacks have added to security challenges in Africa's
most populous country, which is already struggling to contain
Islamist insurgencies in the northeast and communal violence
over grazing rights in central states.
In a separate flashpoint on Tuesday, suspected Islamist
gunmen killed at least 69 people and razed a village to the
ground in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno.

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