BAUCHI, Nigeria April 19 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed 47 people
in attacks on villages in the northwestern Nigerian state of
Katsina in the early hours of Saturday, local police said.
"Armed bandits", some of whom wielded AK 47 guns, carried
out the attacks, Katsina police said in a statement on Sunday.
Hundreds of people have been killed in the last year by
criminal gangs carrying out robberies and kidnappings in
northwest Nigeria.