Gunmen from gangs of cattle thieves kill 16 people in remote village in northwest Nigeria, police say, but local media report 37 deaths including of village chief
Gunmen from gangs of cattle thieves have killed 16 people in an attack on a remote village in northwest Nigeria, Police said, in the latest raid by the militants in the region.
"The terrorists killed 16 people in the attack and fled before the deployment of police personnel," Shehu said.A statement from the Zamfara state governor's office confirmed the attack, saying "many lives were reportedly lost and many others got injured", without giving details. The criminals who are known as bandits and who maintain camps in a vast forest, straddling Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Niger states have recently intensified mass abductions of students in schools for ransom.
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