At least 30 people have been killed in an attack by fortified groups in Nigeria’s Zamfara state.
Violence has been raging in different corridor of the country for further than two times. Reuters quoted original people and officers from the country’s security forces as saying.
At a time when ordinary people are floundering with the country’s deteriorating frugality, a variety of felonious conditioning, including mass hijackings, have increased in the northwest towards the end of 2020.
Residers of the affected townlets said that further than 300 fortified men attacked eight townlets and started firing indiscriminately. It caused casualties.
An viewer said that the culprits also set fire to houses and shops during the attack. A man named Ummaru Makeri verified that he’d lost his three children and his woman in the attack. His house was set on fire.
Abu Bakar Belo, a occupant who escaped during the attack, said the number of bushwhackers was lesser than the number of security help in the townlets at the time of the attack.
Jamfara is one of the countries in Nigeria where hijackings are a regular circumstance. Authorities have shut down telecommunications there since September last time.
A spokesperson for the governor of Zamfara said the zealots had stopped the markswomen in the Anka area. Still, he didn’t give any details in this regard.
Locals purport that Nigeria, like bordering Mali and Burkina Faso, has come a regular target for the Islamic militant group Al Qaeda and IS.
Since 2012 and 2013, terrorist groups have taken control of large corridor of Africa. Since also the common people there have been suffering from instability. There have been incidents of raids in townlets, hijacking of cattle, theft of houses and setting fire to houses. Also, civilians are frequently killed in clashes with Western forces.