At least 30 people killed in weekend raids by 'bandits' on six villages in Nigeria's north, a region regularly hit by criminal violence and clashes between communities, local police say
Kasimu Musa, a resident of Raka Dutse, said the communities"buried 36 people yesterday who were killed by the bandits".Bandits who terrorise the district launch attacks from their hideouts in nearby Tsauna and Kuyan Bana forests which stretch into neighbouring Niger, Abdullahi said.
Communal violence is just one security challenge facing recently sworn in President Bola Tinubu who won a February presidential ballot marred by opposition accusations of vote rigging. The conflict has spiralled into broader criminality with gangs of so-called bandits, comprising mostly herders, carrying out deadly raids on villages to steal livestock, kidnap for ransom and burn homes after looting them.
Authorities and security analysts have expressed concern over alliances between the so-called bandits, who are motivated by financial gains, and extremists waging a 14-year-old insurgency in the northeast.
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