34 villagers have been killed by gunmen on motorcycles in the northern Zamfara state of African country Nigeria. This areas in the country are constantly facing criminal gangs who terrorize the remote villages.

The fatal incident occurred on Friday. The criminals’ gangs on motorcycles entered the Ungar Kafau and Gidan Wawa villages in Shinkafi district and shot dead 34 people. The bandits were said to have opened fire on farmers on their fields outside the villages and also pursued those who fled.

For the last many years the rural communities in the Zamfara state have for years been terrorised by criminal gangs. The criminals’ raid villages, steal cattle, kidnapping for ransom and burning homes after looting food supplies.

The bandits are known to hide in camps in Rugu forest which straddles Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Niger states from where they launch attacks on communities in the area. </s> At least 34 people were killed after suspected bandits attacked three villages in Shinkafi local government of Zamfara state on Friday. The affected villages are Gidan Wawo-Katuru, Tungar Kaho-Galadi and Kyalido-Katuru. A source told TheCable that the attackers, who came on motorcycles, set many houses on fire and shot …Read more via TheCable – http://bit.ly/2Kj4Fg7 Get More Nigeria Metro News </s> Kano - Gunmen have killed 34 people in Nigeria’s northern Zamfara state where criminal gangs have been terrorising remote villages, police said Sunday.

Armed bandits on motorcycles stormed into neighbouring Tungar Kafau and Gidan Wawa villages in Shinkafi district late Friday and shot dead 34 people, state police spokesman Mohammed Shehu said in a statement.

“Normalcy has been restored in Tungar Kafau and Gidan Wawa... following attack by armed bandits... where 34 people were killed,” Shehu said.

He said the victims of the attacks were buried on Saturday, adding police were on the trail of the killers.

The bandits were said to have opened fire on farmers on their fields outside the villages and also pursued those who fled.

“The bandits killed 35 people in the attacks,” said Lawwali Madattai, a resident.

Rural communities in Zamfara state have for years been terrorised by criminal gangs who raid villages, stealing cattle, kidnapping for ransom and burning homes after looting food supplies.

The bandits are known to hide in camps in Rugu forest which straddles Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Niger states from where they launch attacks on communities in the area.

Last week, at least 40 people were killed and dozens injured in raids in eight remote villages in Niger state. </s> Kano, Nigeria: At least 26 people were killed after cattle thieves raided several villages in Nigeria´s northern Sokoto state, police said Tuesday.



Armed bandits on motorcycles attacked Warwana, Tabkin Kwasa and Dutsi, a trio of neighbouring villages in Rabah district, late Sunday, shooting residents as they fled.

"Twenty six people were killed in the attack -- they included 24 males and two females," Sokoto state police commissioner Murtala Usman Mani told AFP.

"The criminals came on motorcycles and attacked three herding settlements, shooting people," said Mani, who attended the victims´ funerals on Monday.

Residents said the gunmen rode into the villages on two dozen motorcycles, three men on each.

"They attacked around 5:00 pm (1600 GMT) and began shooting people without warning," Warwana resident Kabiru Jabbi said.

The three villages border Zamfara state where kidnapping and cattle rustling gangs operate.

The gunmen were believed to have launched the attacks from Zamfara forests where the gangs are based, Mani said.

In July last year armed bandits killed more than 30 people and torched homes in raids on five villages bordering Sokoto and Zamfara states, two of them in Rabah district.

Farming and herding communities in Zamfara state have long been terrorised by such gangs who raid villages, stealing cattle, kidnapping residents for ransom and burning homes.

The incessant attacks prompted villages to form local vigilante groups as a protection force but they are themselves accused of extrajudicial killings of suspected bandits.

The killings by vigilantes attract reprisals by motorcycle-riding criminal gangs who carry out indiscriminate killings and burn villages in retaliation.

In April, the Nigerian central government deployed troops to Zamfara to combat the gangs while police outlawed the vigilantes to end the tit-for-tat killings.

It was not clear whether the latest attacks were connected with the face-off between the bandits and vigilante groups. </s> Gunmen have killed 26 people in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state, in the latest in a series of attacks blamed on cattle thieves, a local official said Friday.

Men on motorcycles attacked gold miners near Kuru-Kuru village in Anka district late Thursday and clashed with residents from a nearby village who had mobilised in anticipation of the assault.

"We buried 26 people killed in the two attacks by the armed bandits," chairman of Anka local government Mustapha Gado Anka told AFP.

"The victims were miners from Kuru-Kuru that were attacked and residents of Jarkuka village who had come to help their neighbours," Anka said.

He said the assailants ambushed the group of volunteers from Jarkuka who had come to help.

Zamfara state police spokesman Mohammed Shehu confirmed the attack, but declined to give details "until after the police commissioner is briefed".

The killings were the latest round of tit-for-tat attacks by cattle thieves on farming communities in the state.

Last month, at least 36 people were killed in a similar fashion in nearby Bawar-Daji.

Gunmen on motorbikes invaded the village and opened fire on mourners who had gone to a cemetary to bury victims of a previous attack.

For several years, rural communities in the agrarian state have been under siege from gangs of cattle rustlers who carry out deadly raids on herding communities to kill, loot and burn homes.

In the absence of a robust police force and effective judicial system in Nigeria, villagers have created local vigilante groups to fight off the gangs.

But the vigilantes are equally responsible for the bloodshed and are also accused of extra-judicial killings.

Residents said the intensification of the attacks was because locals were cooperating with soldiers sent to quell the attacks.

"People have been cooperating with soldiers sent to fight the bandits and we believe this is why they have been launching renewed attacks," a resident told AFP.

In early April, the Nigerian air force deployed special forces to the state to reinforce troops on the ground fighting the bandits.

Following the Bawar-Daji attack, state governor Abdulaziz Yari ordered troops to shoot on sight anyone found with a gun in the area.

Nigeria, West Africa's largest economy, is battling an array of security concerns across the country, from Boko Haram jihadists in the northeast to oil militants in the south.

President Muhammadu Buhari has deployed troops in many states to combat cattle rustlers and criminal gangs and try and contain clashes between herdsmen and farmers. </s> Bandits have reportedly killed 34 people in Tungar Kafau and Gidan Wawa villages of the Shinkafi Local Government Area of Zamfara State.

According to Punch, the bandits who were on motorbikes attacked the village around around 5pm on Friday, June 14, 2019, and began to shoot anyone they could see in the village.

34 people died and several others were seriously wounded.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Zamfara State Command, Mohammed Shehu confirmed the incident on Saturday, June 15, 2019, saying “Normalcy has been restored in Tungar Kafau and Gidan wawa in the Shibkafi LGA following attacks by bandits where 34 people were killed by the bandits.

“In order to forestall future occurrence in any part of the state, the Zamfara State Police Command, in collaboration with other security agencies, have made adequate security arrangements to ensure adequate protection of all villages and communities in the state.

“Today, 15th June, 2019, the Commissioner of Police, Zamfara State Command, CP Usman Nagogo, was in the state government’s delegation, led by the deputy governor, to the affected villages for burial of the deceased.”

However, on Saturday, June 15, 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari assured Nigerians that his administration will soon put an end to banditry, kidnapping and insurgency in the country.

Buhari said his administration will overpower insurgents, kidnappers and bandits wherever they are hiding in the country.

The president gave this assurance on Saturday, June 15, 2019, at the fourth convocation of the Federal University, Dutsin-Ma, in Katsina State. </s> The police in Zamfara have confirmed that bandits attacked and killed six persons in the early hours of Wednesday in Badarawa village of Shinkafi Local Government area of Zamfara.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Superintendent Mohammed Shehu, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria in Gusau on Thursday.

He said that the police received a distress call from the village at about 12.15am and quickly mobilized security to the area.

He said that a combined team of the police and soldiers on operation in the area, moved in immediately.

He, however, said that due to the bad terrain of the area, the bandits had fled before the arrival of the police.

“Unfortunately, I can confirm to you that six persons were killed while 10 others were injured and both the dead and the injured were taken to the hospital.”

The police image maker said that those killed were identified as members of the affected community.

At the moment, he said, the patrol team was combing the affected area to arrest the bandits and appealed to members of the community and its environs to inform the nearest security post of any suspicious movement.

NAN, however, reports that when the Speaker of the state’s House of Assembly, Alhaji Sanusi Rikiji, visited the village on a condolence visit, members of the community said 11 were killed and 24 were injured and hospitalized. </s> Cattle thieves have killed 23 people in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state which has been battling cattle rustling and kidnapping in recent months, a local government official said late Saturday.

Armed bandits on motorcycles invaded Zanoka village in the state on Friday, opening fire on residents and burning homes, said Mustapha Muhammad, the chairman of the local government area.

"We buried 23 people killed in the attack, including vigilantes who tried to fight off the bandits", he said.

"They torched homes and burnt some of their victims alive before fleeing into the bush".

Muhammad said the gunmen had earlier on Friday invaded the remote village, carting away some cattle but were forced to flee by local vigilantes who fought them off and reclaimed the stolen herd. </s> EXCLUSIVE DETAILS/#TrackNigeria: Fresh attacks by armed bandit Friday evening in three villages of Shinkafi local government of Zamfara state, left 34 people dead.

Newsdiaryonline exclusively gathered that the villages attacked by the bandits include Gidan Wawo-Katuru, Tungar Kaho-Galadi and Kyalido-Katuru villages.

Though other sources say the number of the dead people were more, our source and the Police maintained that those killed were 34.

The source added that in spite of the attacks, the bandits had further threatened to come back to the communities.

“The problem that must be faced is these security men are human beings too and they do not know the terrains where these bandits operate.

“A moment ago, they threatened they would return, that we should vacate the villages. I was about to go to the farm when a neighbour came on a motorbike and informed me that they were on their way to our village, Tungar Danmada.

“Just when I went to inform my people, they came firing five motorcycles and stayed at the primary school. They left to Gerenya and siezed someone’s motorcycle. They then left to Ƙwaryad Dutse and entered house to house and made away with the people’s herds.

“They then came back to our village and made away with our sheep as they shot at people. Where they met resistance, they set houses on fire and left.

“The villages that are being disturbed by the bandits now include Tungan Danmada, Asarara, Durkawa, Gidan Aye, Gidan Danmussa, Gidan Daji, Gidan Antaru,” the source told Newsdiaryonline.

Reacting to further inquiries, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) the Zamfara state Command, SP Mohammed Shehu told this reporter on telephone that the team comprised of the Commissioner of Police and the Deputy Governor of the state had just returned from the burial of the people killed. He said he would issued a statement thereafter.

In the statement, Mohammed confirmed that 34 people lost their lives in the attack and that measures had been been put in place to secure lives and properties of the villagers.

“Normalcy has been restored in Tungar Kafau and Gidan wawa in Shibkafi LGA following attack by armed bandits on 14/6/2019 where 34 people were killed by the bandits.

He added that the Police Commissioner, along with Zamfara Deputy Governor went to the affected villages to bury the dead people.

“In order to forestall future occurrence in any part of the state, the Zamfara State Police Command in collaboration with other security agencies have made adequate security arrangement to ensure adequate protection of all villages and communities in the state.

“Today being 15th June, 2019, the Commissioner of Police Zamfara State Command, CP Usman Nagogo psc+, was in the State Government delegation led by the Deputy Governor to the affected villages for burial of the deceased.

“The CP has directed the combine security personnel deployed to the area to improve and sustain the ongoing bush combing of the affected area and its environs for possible arrest of the perpetrators of this dastardly act.

“He further directed the Command Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to conduct a discreet investigation with a view to unravelling the circumstance behind this crime. Whoever is involved in this dastardly act will be made to face the full wrath of the law.

“He appealed to members of the public to always give the police credible and timely information and also report strange and suspicious characters for prompt action,” the statement read.
A group of bandits attack a village in the Shinkafi local government area of Zamfara State, Nigeria, killing at least 34 civilians. The gunmen arrived on motorcycles and opened fire on civilians indiscriminately, later burning down homes.