Seventeen people, including five police officers, have been killed in recent days, in several armed attacks perpetrated by a criminal band in the province of Katsina, in northwest Nigeria.
Le Monde with AFP
Northwest forests and center of Nigeria are infested with criminal bands, known locally under the name of “bandits”, which kill or remove the inhabitants after having looted and burned their houses.
Wednesday evening July 20, a group of around 300 “bandits” on Moto attacked a police station near the village of Gatakawa, in the Kankara district, killing five agents, according to the police spokesman Local Gambo Isah.
Furthermore, at least nine people were killed on Tuesday and Wednesday in other attacks on four villages in the neighboring district of Faskari, according to a local official, Musa Ado, who attributed this violence to the same army band. “Four villages have been attacked and a total of nine people were killed, the village of Ruwan Goduya lost six people,” said Ado. “A person was killed in each of the three other villages, where the bandits have stolen livestock and other goods,” he added.