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| Armed Gang Kills 48 in Raid in Nigeria |
| 2013-06-20 |
| [An Nahar] An armed gang has raided a northern Nigerian village and killed 48 people in an apparent reprisal attack targeting a local vigilante group, a state official said Wednesday. "There was an attack by armed bandidos early Tuesday on Kizara village where 48 residents were killed in apparent assassinations by cattle rustlers that have been terrorizing the state for some time now," said Ibrahim Birnin-Magaji, commissioner for information in Zamfara state, where the village is located. Dozens of gunnies arrived in the village before dawn on cycle of violences, he told Agence La Belle France Presse. "Some of them climbed up the hill overlooking the village and opened fire indiscriminately," he said. "They later moved house to house, telling residents that they were looking for members of local vigilante whom they said had been disturbing them." He said those killed included the local chief, the chief imam and the head of the vigilante group in the village. Many villages in Nigeria form local vigilante groups to defend themselves against violent cattle rustlers or other criminal gangs, sometimes leading to a cycle of festivities and reprisal attacks. Zamfara state, located in Nigeria's northwest, has seen a number of such incidents. There was so far no sign of any link to Islamist krazed killer group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , which has been waging a deadly insurgency mainly in Nigeria's northeast. Nigeria's military is currently engaged in an offensive seeking to end Boko Haram's four-year insurgency. |
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