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UPDATE 2-'Armed bandits' kill 47 in northwest Nigeria's Katsina state -police

Published 19/04/2020, 19:00
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(Adds Buhari comment)
By Ardo Hazzad
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.
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.
Gunmen, some with AK 47 guns, carried out the attacks in
three local government authorities in the state in the early
hours of Saturday between 12:30 a.m. (2330 GMT) and around 3
a.m., Katsina police said in its statement.
"There was reports of organised and simultaneous attacks in
villages in Danmusa, Dutsenma and Safana by groups of armed
bandits," the statement said of some of the attacks.
"Detachments of Police, Nigerian Army, Nigeria Airforce,
Civil Defence and DSS (Department of State Services) have been
drafted to the area," it added.
President Muhammadu Buhari, in a statement, said he would
not tolerate large scale killing of innocent people by criminal
gangs.
"In line with my commitment to security of the people, these
attacks will be met with decisive force," said Buhari, who is
from Katsina.

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