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Armed bandits kill at least 18 in Nigeria's Katsina state

Published 31/05/2020, 22:45
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, May 31 (Reuters) - Armed bandits in
Nigeria's northwestern state of Katsina killed at least 18
people, including a local official, and stole thousands of
livestock on Sunday, two witnesses and a police spokesman told
Reuters.
The eyewitnesses said as many as 500 men riding motorcycles,
some brandishing assault rifles, charged into the Faskari local
government area on Sunday afternoon.
"At least 18 person were confirmed killed by now and many
others were suspected to be killed," local resident Isma'ila
Ya'u told Reuters by telephone.
The men went on to the nearby village of Sabon Garin where
they killed local leader Abdulhamid Sani, 55, after attempting
to kidnap him, the witnesses and a police spokesman said.
Sadiq Hasaan, another witness, said the men were headed with
the stolen livestock towards other villages in the Batsari local
government area, and thousands of residents had fled their
homes.
Police spokesman Gombo Isa confirmed the attack, adding the
assailants carried "sophisticated weapons". He said security
forces were "combing the forest with a view to arresting the
hoodlums."
Criminal gangs carrying out robberies and kidnappings have
killed hundreds in the last year in northwest Nigeria.
The 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.

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