{"id":116399,"date":"2021-03-06T12:28:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T04:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116399"},"modified":"2021-03-06T12:28:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T04:28:34","slug":"gunmen-kill-16-in-northwest-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116399","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kill 16 in northwest Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/imgk.timesnownews.com\/story\/1568107194-GettyImages_Nigeria_flag_22.jpg?tr=w-600,h-450,fo-auto\" alt=\"Nigeria gunmen \"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KANO (Nigeria), March 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Gunmen have killed 16 people and injured nine others in a village in northwestern Nigeria near the border with Niger, a local official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pre-dawn attack on Tara village, in Sokoto state, is the latest in a<br>series of attacks by criminal gangs known locally as \u201cbandits\u201d who for years<br>have terrorised communities, killing, pillaging and kidnapping people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe gunmen came on motorcycles and opened fire on the village,\u201d said<br>resident Lawwali Umeh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe buried 16 dead bodies this (Friday) afternoon. Nine others are badly injured,\u201d Umeh added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An official from the area, Saidu Naino Ibrahim, confirmed the death toll,<br>saying the injured were being treated at a hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe attackers took away more than 100 cows,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawmaker said the bandits had come from Dogon Zango, in neighbouring Zamfara state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bandits are known to operate out of camps in Rugu forest, which straddles<br>Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Niger states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nigerian military deployed to the region in 2016 and a peace deal with<br>some of the bandits was signed in 2019 but attacks have continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe bandits have been raiding villages in the area\u2026 moving from village<br>to village, killing and looting,\u201d Ibrahim said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know which village will be targeted next,\u201d worried the resident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police confirmed in a statement that there was an attack by bandits in<br>Tara, without giving details. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANO (Nigeria), March 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Gunmen have killed 16 people and injured nine others in a village in northwestern Nigeria near the border with Niger, a local official said. The pre-dawn attack on Tara village, in Sokoto state, is the latest in aseries of attacks by criminal gangs known locally as \u201cbandits\u201d who for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":116402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}