The attacks were performed in Katsin, Kebbi and Benue on Saturday and Sunday, pointing out more serious safety challenges in this region.
Although no group has taken responsibility for attacks, many believe they were performed by the so-called Banditi – armed criminal groups that from 2020. Siow violence, robbery and abduction in northern Nigeria. Their activities represent a serious threat to the safety and daily lives of the local population.
According to the inhabitants, 20 bodies were found on Sunday in the Gobirawa community, in the local government of Dutsin, in the Katsin State. They were killed late on Saturday night.
More eyewitnesses told Anadolia that the attackers arrived on the engines and randomly shot civilians.
Abdurrahman Abdullahi, President of the Civil Society Coalition of Katsin and the local leader in Gobirawi, said 15 shops and 20 houses were destroyed in the attack.
“Except for the 20 bodies we managed to find and bury on Sundays, and others who are treated in the general hospital in Dutsinmi, many locals were displaced or disappeared,” Abdullah said.
State Police Spokesman Abubakar Sadiq Aliyu confirmed the attacks for Anadol, but did not exceed additional information. The police have not yet issued an official statement.
On Sunday, 15 farmers were killed as they worked on their fields in the village of Waja, in the area of Danko Wasago in the state of Kebbi.
One of the survivors, Farmer Aliyu Ahmad Wasagu, said the attack took place at the time the locals thought that the safety returned to the area.
“The attack occurred just when we thought that life had returned to normal in Danko Wasago communities,” he said.
The Chairman of the Local Administration Danko Wasagu, Hussaini Aliyu Ben, confirmed that the terrorists killed 15 people and wounded three more.
On the same day, 15 people were killed in the evening near Ovwumogbo and OKPo’opolo in the local government agato, the state of Benue. They were mostly traders among the victims.
According to Quadri Muniru, who talked to Anadolia by the Agency on Sunday night, the victims were ambushed as they returned from the owet market.
These attacks re-encouraged safety requirements in vulnerable communities. The Nigerian government faces a growing pressure to solve the issue of insecurity, which caused thousands of death and displacement.
(Vijesti.ba)
