114 Nigerian citizens were killed following attacks on villages
Attacks by bandits on rural areas in the center of Nigeria have resulted in the deaths of dozens of citizens of this country. |
According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, Nigerian authorities announced on Monday night Tehran time that dozens of citizens of this country were killed during three days of attacks by bandits on villages.
According to “Agence France-Presse”, local Nigerian officials said on Monday that more than 100 people have been killed in a series of bloody attacks on villages in the center of the African country.
“Mandi Casa”, the head of the local government in “Bocus” located in “Plateau State” said: “At least 113 bodies were killed during the clashes that started in the morning It started on Saturday, they have been found.”
Northwestern Nigeria is also one of the most chaotic regions of this African country. It is estimated that 30,000 armed bandits are present in this area. Nigerian government officials have announced that the bandits are connected with the terrorist group Boko Haram.
Boko Haram launched a bloody insurgency and war in northeastern Nigeria in 2009 and gradually expanded the scope of its attacks. expanded to neighboring countries. This terrorist group also declared its connection and allegiance with ISIS in 2015. The head of the local government of Nigeria in Bokos added that the bandits carried out coordinated attacks in 20 different villages.
He said: “We found more than 300 injured people who were transferred to hospitals in the surrounding areas.” According to the United Nations, as a result of the terrorist activities of Boko Haram in the last decade in Nigeria, more than 30,000 people have been killed and nearly 3 million people have been left homeless. Borno State is one of the main headquarters of Boko Haram terrorists, a group that pledged allegiance to ISIS in 2016 and changed its name to “West African Province”. The Boko Haram terrorist group became famous in 2014 by kidnapping hundreds of schoolgirls from a school in Brno state and attracted the attention of the media and the international community.
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