Nigerian soldiers have torched many homes across southern and central Nigeria after recent attacks by armed groups that left six soldiers dead, security sources and residents said Tuesday.
On Tuesday morning armed assailants shot at soldiers in a suburb troubled by ethnic violence outside the central Nigerian city of Jos, Plateau State, local police toldAfter the killings, soldiers who had been stationed in the region to boost stability stormed into ethnic Fulani communities, burning up to 150 homes, local residents told“The soldiers called us for a meeting, they told us to bring out miscreants that we know among us,” local resident Usman Adam said.
On Sunday, suspected pirates attacked a gunboat escorting a vessel in the volatile waters of the oil-rich Niger Delta, a security source speaking on condition of anonymity told AFP on Tuesday. Security forces then launched a manhunt for the gunmen in the Lutugbene community, “burning a minimum of 21 houses,” community leader Austin Ozobo told AFP.
Nigeria’s Delta region has long been a hotbed of piracy with armed gangs striking at ships from their hideouts among myriad onshore creeks.
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