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June 10, 2019
Gunmenon motorbikes killed 43 people in waves of attacks in northern Nigeria, policesaid Monday, the latest violence by criminal gangs raiding villages andstealing livestock.
Theseries of attacks, carried out overnight Saturday to Sunday in Nigeria’s farnorthwestern Sokoto state, saw the gangs ride out from forest hideouts,speeding into villages and beginning to shoot.
InSokoto state’s Rabah district, gunmen rode into four villages — Rukunni, Tsage,Giire and Kalfu — massacring 25 people.
Sokotostate’s top police officer Ibrahim Kaoje, said Four people were arrested inconnection to those attacks, including a female informant of the gangs, whodisguised as a mad woman.
Ina separate wave of attacks in Satiru village, in Sokoto’s Isa district, theraiders shot 18 people, and then stole animals.The gangs have longbeen a scourge of rural communities in northern Nigeria, raiding villages,stealing cattle, burning homes, looting food, and kidnapping for ransom.