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Armed gang kills at least 18 in northwest Nigeria

Published 22/05/2019, 13:54
Armed gang kills at least 18 in northwest Nigeria

By Ahmed Kingimi and MAIDUGURI
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, May 22 (Reuters) - An armed gang killed
at least 18 people in the northwest Nigerian state of Katsina,
police and residents said on Wednesday, as unrest spreads across
the region and into the president's home state.
Hundreds of people have died in Nigeria's northwest since
the beginning of the year, in attacks the government attributes
to bandits, a loose term for gangs of outlaws carrying out
robberies and kidnappings.
Despite military and police operations to quell the
conflict, the death toll continues to rise, along with incidents
of kidnapping and robbery.
Security experts say Nigeria can ill-afford more
instability, with the country already struggling to contain
Islamist insurgencies in the northeast, brutal pastoral conflict
in the central states and militant groups in the Niger Delta to
the southeast.
In the latest incident, bandits attacked farmers at the
village of Yar Gamji, near Nigeria's border with Niger, on
Tuesday morning killing 18 of them, police said.
The attackers escaped into a nearby forest, police said in a
statement.
Residents said that while 18 bodies had been found, many
more people were feared dead.
"Right now we are at the Emir's palace for the mass burial
of our relatives, but more than 18 people were killed in this
attack," said Hassan Ibrahim, whose brother was killed.
"There is no peace in Katsina," he said. "Almost every day
they carry out attacks on villagers, killing innocent people."

(Writing by Paul Carsten
Editing by Frances Kerry)

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