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BREAKING: Bandits kill popular traditional ruler [PHOTO] via politicsngr
The outlaws entered the town when the residents were performing the morning prayers, and killed two people including Alhaji Abdu. They also injured four locals.Over the last decade, Zamfara State, in north-western Nigeria, has been engulfed by violence. Gangs of young men ride into villages on motorbikes, armed with Kalshnikovs and machetes, to burn, rape, steal, and kill.
They appear on the roads without warning, shooting drivers and dragging terrified passengers from their cars to be ransomed or shot. Even children are not safe: hundreds of kids have been abducted from boarding schools across the state and held captive—again, for ransom—at bandit hideouts deep in the forests.
Thousands of people have been killed in this conflict across Nigeria’s north-west region, and close to a million more are now displaced from their homes.