21 killed in vigilante gang ambush in Nigeria
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21 killed in vigilante gang ambush in Nigeria
At least 21 government
militiamen were killed in an ambush by criminal gangs in Nigeria's northwest
Katsina state, police said late on Friday.
A convoy of government
militia returning from paying condolences to the family of a dead colleague
came under fire from bandits in Baure, a village in the Safana district,
Katsina police spokesman Abubakar Sadiq Aliyu said.
"Sadly, 21
persons were fatally shot as a result of the attack," Aliyu said, adding
police were seeking to "ensure the arrest of the perpetrators" of the
attack, which happened Tuesday.
Katsina is one of
several states in northwestern and central Nigeria terrorised by bandits who
raid villages, killing and abducting residents as well as burning and looting
homes.
The gangs, who
maintain camps in a huge forest straddling Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Niger
states, have earned notoriety for mass kidnappings of students from schools in
recent years.
In 2023 Katsina state
governor Dikko Umar Radda established Katsina Community Watch Corps (KCWC)
comprising around 2,000 vigilantes to assist the military and police in
fighting the gangs.
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