Gunmen kill at least 10 people in eastern Nigeria, police say

Nigerian constabulary accidental a ample radical carried retired the onslaught connected Binnari colony successful Taraba State.

Gunmen person killed astatine slightest 10 radical successful an onslaught ⁠⁠on a colony successful eastbound Nigeria, constabulary said, arsenic the state continues to conflict banditry and equipped groups successful respective parts of Nigeria.

Nigerian constabulary said connected Saturday that 10 bodies had been recovered arsenic of Friday evening aft a ample radical of gunmen connected motorcycles attacked Binnari colony successful Taraba State.

Recommended Stories

• list 1 of 3Nigeria launches rescue aft subject level crashes with 32 aboard
• list 2 of 3How kidnappings are hitting Nigeria’s Borno families hard
• list 3 of 3Nigeria confirms archetypal Ebola lawsuit amid concerns astir continental spread

According to police, the attackers besides looted nutrient from shops.

Survivors told the AFP quality bureau that astatine slightest 20 radical were killed, portion quality rights radical Amnesty International said successful a connection connected Saturday that the decease toll was 40.

Amnesty International besides said that portion constabulary ⁠had earlier confirmed the sidesplitting of 10 people, much bodies were recovered aboriginal connected Saturday.

The gunmen opened occurrence conscionable aft Friday prayers, residents said.

“After the attackers left, we counted much than 20 bodies, and immoderate radical were inactive missing,” Binnari nonmigratory Sa’idu Nuhu told AFP.

Resident Isiyaku Musa also gave a decease toll of astatine slightest 20.

Malam Abubakar Saifullahi, a assemblage leader, told AFP that the attackers arrived connected astir 50 motorcycles, 2 men apiece, earlier raiding the village.

“They looted shops and took cash, foodstuffs and different provisions. They besides took motorcycles abandoned by radical fleeing the attack,” Saifullahi said.

Amnesty International criticised the Nigerian authorities, saying they “continue to permission agrarian communities successful immoderate parts of the northbound astatine the mercy of gunmen that are repeatedly committing atrocities with impunity”.

Banditry problem

Banditry has go a increasing contented successful northwest and cardinal Nigeria, with almighty gangs battling overstretched constabulary and subject crossed hard-to-reach, agrarian locations.

Taraba, a central-eastern state, besides faces the non-ideological menace of “bandit” gangs.

Bandits raid villages, kidnap radical for ransom, and levy “taxes” connected farmers oregon miners successful agrarian areas of Nigeria with small authorities presence.

Nigeria has besides been warring an equipped rebellion since Boko Haram’s 2009 uprising.

Separately, connected Saturday, the Nigerian subject said it had killed 15 “terrorists” successful northeastern Borno authorities successful an aerial strike.