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2022-03-24 Africa Subsaharan
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Gunmen kill 34 in new attack in northwest Nigeria
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[AlAhram] More than 200 homes were also destroyed in Sunday's attack on four villages in the Kaura local government district, Kaduna State security commissioner Samuel Aruwan said in a statement.
"Security agencies have reported to the Kaduna State Government that after search operations and detailed checks, 34 people have been confirmed dead following Sunday's attack in Kaura local government area," he said.
"Two military personnel were among the 34 killed."
Northwest and central Nigeria have long been terrorised by criminal gangs, known locally as bandidos, who raid villages, conduct mass kidnappings for ransom and steal cattle, but attacks and abductions have intensified.
Sunday's attack came on the same day as another raid that killed 16 people in a remote village in northwestern Zamfara State.
A week earlier, button men killed 11 security personnel, including seven coppers and four vigilantes, in attacks in central and northwestern Nigeria.
- TIT-FOR-TAT ATTACKS -
The gangs, who were officially declared forces of Evil by the government in January, operate from camps hidden in a vast forest across Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Niger states.
Bandit violence in Nigeria's northwest is just one challenge facing security forces, who are also battling against a 12-year jihadist insurgency in the northeast and separatist tensions in the southeast of Africa's most populous nation.
Earlier this month, button men killed at least 57 members of a local self-defence vigilante group in festivities in northwestern Kebbi State, prompting President Muhammadu Buhari to condemn their "brutal murder".
Local residents often form informal vigilante units, known as Yansakai, to protect villages from bandit raids, though some states banned them after they were accused of extrajudicial killings. But they are often involved in tit-for-tat festivities with bandidos.
Security experts have warned the gangs, who are driven by financial motives, are increasingly forging alliances with jihadists from the northeast of Nigeria.
Security forces say they have been bombarding and raiding the forest hideouts and authorities last year also cut telecommunications in some northwest states in an attempt to disrupt bandit communications.
Criminal gangs in Nigeria's northwest made international headlines last year when they raided a number of schools and kidnapped students in a bid to squeeze more ransom out of communities.
Nigeria's bandit violence has its origins in the festivities over land and resources between farmers and nomadic cattle herders
...the Fulani... in the northwest where tit-for-tat attacks have spiralled into wider criminal activity. 
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