Au moins 38 morts dans une attaque armée dans le nord-ouest du Nigéria
Armed men killed at least 38 people in the village of Dutse Dan Ajiya, in Zamfara State, northwestern Nigeria, police and local authorities told AFP on Saturday.
The attack took place overnight Thursday to Friday in this isolated village, which is "difficult to access," said Yazid Abubakar, a spokesman for the Zamfara police, adding: "The situation has returned to normal in the area."
According to Hamisu Faru, a local official who reported 50 deaths following the attack, "the bandits came from the Gando forest. They besieged Dutse Dan Ajiya and opened fire indiscriminately, killing all the residents who tried to flee."
Armed gangs, locally called "bandits", are based in the forests straddling the states of Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna, Sokoto, Kebbi and Niger, from where they launch attacks against villages.
The Nigerian army has been deployed in the region for several years to combat these groups, but the violence persists.
The resurgence of violence perpetrated by jihadist groups and bandits in Nigeria in recent months has attracted the attention of the United States.
Washington, which describes much of this violence as "persecution" of Christians, ordered surprise airstrikes, in coordination with Nigerian authorities, on Christmas Day in Sokoto State, in the north of the country.
Since 2009, the jihadist insurgency in Nigeria, led mainly by Boko Haram and its rival faction, the Islamic State in West Africa (ISWAP), has caused more than 40,000 deaths and two million displaced persons in the northeast of the country, according to the UN.
AFP
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