US EditionGunmen kill at least 162 in new Nigeria attack
- On Feb 4, Reuters reported at least 170 people were killed in an attack on a remote village in central Kwara state, as soldiers combed nearby bushland for survivors.
- Officials link the attack to frustrated terrorist cells reacting to recent counterterrorism campaigns, while security analysts note a surge in banditry and militant insurgency across Nigeria in recent years.
- Witness Saidu Baba Ahmed said, `As I'm speaking to you now, I'm in the village along with military personnel, sorting dead bodies and combing the surrounding areas for more` after about 200 gunmen torched homes and the Emir's palace in Woro.
- Police and military were mobilised for search-and-rescue, Kwara police spokesperson Adetoun Ejire-Adeyem said, while the U.S. sent a small military team and several people remained missing on Wednesday.
- Across the region, Nigeria faces a complex security crisis, with armed extremists who killed at least 36 last week and insurgents in the northeast.
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Some states in the country, especially in the center and northwest of the country, suffer constant attacks by criminal gangs that commit assaults and kidnappings to demand ransoms
At least 162 people were killed in an armed attack in a village in Kwara state, Nigeria, according to the Red Cross. A massacre of a rare violence that illustrates the worsening of insecurity in the...
A new attack that killed at least 162 people on Tuesday struck Nigeria, as Nigeria stepped up its efforts to combat its endemic insecurity linked to criminal gangs and jihadists, with the support of the United States.
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