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Bandits kill 32 villagers in NW Nigeria

Xinhua,March 30, 2018 Adjust font size:

LAGOS, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Thirty two villagers were killed by bandits in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara, authorities said on Friday.

Mustapha Gado, Chairman of Anka Local Government, who confirmed the incident, said 32 persons were buried on Thursday, including a woman and her child who died at a hospital in Gusau, the state capital.

Gado said more bodies were still being searched for in the bushes and that security measures had been stepped up in the area, but that the villagers had all ran away out of fear that the bandits might return.

Security sources said the bandits attacked Bawan Daji village on Tuesday after some members of the community held a meeting to discuss measures to be taken against the bandits during the 2018 farming season.

The bandits had earlier threatened that there would be no farming activities in the area in this year's rainy season, the source added. Enditem

 

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