More than 10,000 victims also found themselves home after their homes were shaved by the bandits, said Sunday the spokesman for the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs.
Le Monde with AFP
The Northwest and the center of Nigeria continue to be the scene of violence perpetrated by armed groups. At least 200 people were killed during several attacks this week by armed men in the state of Zamfara, said Sunday, January 9th a government official.
“It’s horrible and tragic. More than 200 people were buried (…) because of the bandits invasion,” said Sadiya Umar Farouq spokesman, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs. “We are also worried about displaced people fleeing by hundreds their communities,” added the minister to a statement released Saturday night.
Dozens of missing people missing
“More than 10,000 victims have also found themselves home after their homes have been shaved by the bandits while dozens [other people] are always missing,” he added.
“We buried a total of 143 people killed by bandits in these attacks,” said France-Press (AFP) Balaube Alhaji, head of one of the villages affected by these attacks in the state of Zamfara.
Hundreds of armed men who arrived in motorcycle launched attacks in ten villages in the districts of Anka and Bukkuyum from Wednesday to Thursday, pulling on the inhabitants, looting and roofing houses, indicated these inhabitants.
An inhabitant of the village of Kurfa Danya, Babandi Hamidu, said these men were shooting “view” on anyone they saw in the village. Four inhabitants told AFP attending the funeral of victims in their respective villages.
“Mortior mass”
The President Nigerian, Muhammadu Buhari, condemned Saturday these attacks perpetrated according to him by “murderers of mass” which attack, loot, remove the villagers, of which they steal the cattle and burn the houses, in the northwestern rural Nigeria, without reporting a balance sheet.
On Wednesday, the government officially described the “bandits” operating in Nigeria of “terrorists”, in order to tighten the penalties against the authors of attacks, their informants and their partisans.
The Nigerian armed forces said this week have killed 537 “armed bandits and other criminal elements” and arresting 374 others in northwestern Nigeria since May 2020, while 452 “civilians kidnapped were rescued”.