Gunmen kill three, kidnap at least 50 in north-west Nigeria, say residents
Maiduguri, Nigeria Reuters At least 50 people, including women and children, were abducted and three others were killed in an attack by gunmen in Bagega, a mining village in Nigeria’s north-west Zamfara state, residents said on Tuesday. Kidnapping for ransom has become commonplace in north-western Nigeria in recent years where armed gangs, often referred to […]
Gunmen kill 14, kidnap 60 in attacks in northern Nigeria
Maiduguri, Nigeria Reuters Gunmen in Nigeria killed eight people on Sunday and abducted at least 60 others in two communities of north-west Zamfara state, residents and a local traditional leader said, two days after armed men kidnapped dozens from a university in the state. Elsewhere, in the north-east of the country suspected Islamist insurgents ambushed […]
Armed gang kills 34 people in north-west Nigeria attack
Maiduguri, NigeriaReuters At least 34 people, including seven soldiers, were killed in an attack by a gang of armed men in Nigeria’s north-west Zamfara state, the head of a vigilante group and residents said. The attack in the remote Dan Gulbi district of the Maru local government area of the state occurred on Monday afternoon, […]
Gunmen kill dozens and kidnap children in northern Nigeria
Bauchi, Nigeria Reuters Gunmen in Nigeria have killed dozens of people and kidnapped a number of children in separate attacks in two northern states, police and residents said on Sunday, the latest incidents in a region dogged by armed violence. Armed gangs on motorbikes frequently take advantage of thinly stretched security forces in the region […]
Gunmen kidnap 80, including children, in north-west Nigeria
Bauchi, Nigeria Reuters Gunmen abducted at least 80 people, mostly women and children, in Nigeria’s Zamfara state, a hotspot for kidnappings for ransom by armed gangs targeting remote villages, residents said on Saturday. Gangs of armed men have attacked hundreds of local communities across north-western Nigeria in recent years, while Islamist militants continue to stage […]
Gunmen abduct more than 100 in Nigeria’s Zamfara state; German priest kidnapped in Mali
Maiduguri, Nigeria Reuters More than 100 people, including women and children were abducted when gunmen raided four villages in Nigeria’s north-eastern Zamfara state on Sunday, the information commissioner and residents said on Monday. Kidnapping has become endemic in north-west Nigeria as roving gangs of armed men abduct people from villages, highways and farms and demand […]
About 200 dead in attacks in north-west Nigeria, residents say
Maiduguri, Nigeria Reuters An estimated 200 people or more have been killed in villages in Nigeria’s Zamfara state during deadly reprisal attacks by armed bandits following military air strikes on their hideouts this week, residents said on Saturday. Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari speaks during the 75th anniversary celebrations of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and […]
Armed bandits kill at least 30 in Nigeria’s Zamfara state
Maiduguri, NigeriaReuters Armed bandits have killed at least 30 people in Nigeria’s Zamfara State, raiding several villages in a region that has been in a security crisis for more than two years, residents and security sources said on Friday. There have been a series of attacks in north-west Nigeria, which has seen a sharp rise […]
Medical charity MSF condemns killing of one of its nurses in Nigeria
Maiduguri, Nigeria Reuters Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has condemned the killing by unknown gunmen of a nurse it employed in Zamfara in north-west Nigeria, an area at the epicentre of a surge in violent crime in which thousands have been abducted. MSF said nurse Mohammad Hassan, 37, was killed on 2nd October when armed […]
Nigeria says 75 abducted children released amid army crackdown
Maiduguri, Nigeria Reuters Seventy-five children who were kidnapped from their school in Nigeria’s north-western Zamfara State have been released after their abductors came under pressure from a military crackdown, a state official said on Monday. Gunmen took the students from the village of Kaya on 1st September, the latest in a spate of mass kidnappings […]