Investing.com - Financial Markets Worldwide
Get 40% Off
Get 40% Off
👀 👁 🧿 All eyes on Biogen, up +4,56% after posting earnings. Our AI picked it in March 2024.
Which stocks will surge next?
Unlock AI-picked Stocks

Gunmen kill 36 in attacks on two northern Nigerian states

Published 25/02/2021, 00:59
Updated 25/02/2021, 01:00

ABUJA, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed 36 people in two
attacks in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, a day after insurgents
fired rocket-propelled grenades amid worsening security facing
Africa's most populous nation, officials and residents said.
The series of attacks by armed bandits occurred over the
past 48 hours with 18 people killed each in villages of Kaduna
and Katsina states and several others injured. The assailants
burnt down houses, displacing the villagers.
Hundreds of people have been killed in northern Nigeria by
criminal gangs carrying out robberies and kidnappings.
Such attacks have added to security challenges in Nigeria,
which is struggling to contain Islamist insurgencies in the
northeast and communal violence over grazing rights in central
states.
The latest attack comes less than a month after President
Muhammadu Buhari replaced his long-standing military chiefs amid
worsening violence, with the armed forces fighting to reclaim
other northeastern towns overrun by insurgents.
Last week, unidentified gunmen killed a student in an attack
on a boarding school in Nigeria's north-central Niger state and
kidnapped 42 people, including 27 students.

Latest comments

Install Our App
Risk Disclosure: Trading in financial instruments and/or cryptocurrencies involves high risks including the risk of losing some, or all, of your investment amount, and may not be suitable for all investors. Prices of cryptocurrencies are extremely volatile and may be affected by external factors such as financial, regulatory or political events. Trading on margin increases the financial risks.
Before deciding to trade in financial instrument or cryptocurrencies you should be fully informed of the risks and costs associated with trading the financial markets, carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience, and risk appetite, and seek professional advice where needed.
Fusion Media would like to remind you that the data contained in this website is not necessarily real-time nor accurate. The data and prices on the website are not necessarily provided by any market or exchange, but may be provided by market makers, and so prices may not be accurate and may differ from the actual price at any given market, meaning prices are indicative and not appropriate for trading purposes. Fusion Media and any provider of the data contained in this website will not accept liability for any loss or damage as a result of your trading, or your reliance on the information contained within this website.
It is prohibited to use, store, reproduce, display, modify, transmit or distribute the data contained in this website without the explicit prior written permission of Fusion Media and/or the data provider. All intellectual property rights are reserved by the providers and/or the exchange providing the data contained in this website.
Fusion Media may be compensated by the advertisers that appear on the website, based on your interaction with the advertisements or advertisers.
© 2007-2024 - Fusion Media Limited. All Rights Reserved.