{"id":292927,"date":"2025-02-17T12:06:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T04:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=292927"},"modified":"2025-02-17T12:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T04:06:52","slug":"nigeria-airforce-kills-6-civilians-in-northeast-by-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=292927","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria airforce kills 6 civilians in northeast by mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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KANO (Nigeria), Feb 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) — An army jet killed at least six civilians after mistakenly attacking them while pursuing gangs in northern Nigeria’s Katsina state, residents said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It dropped a bomb on a cluster of huts on the outskirts of Zakka village in Safana district on Saturday, three residents said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The strike came after bandits attacked a police base in the village, killing two policemen and a vigilante assisting them, they added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The jet deployed after the bandits had withdrawn and circled the village before striking a cluster of huts belonging to a family outside the village, Muntari Sada, a Zakka resident, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Six members of the family were killed and their body parts had to be collected in bags for burial,” said Sada, who attended their funeral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His account was supported by two other residents who gave the same toll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amnesty International put the number of dead at 10, calling in a statement Sunday for an “impartial, transparent and immediate investigation”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nigeria’s armed forces have for years been fighting criminal gangs — locally called bandits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The groups terrorise communities in northwestern and central Nigeria where they raid villages, kill or abduct residents for ransom and burn homes after looting them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This latest strike is the latest in a series of such incidents in the north of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January, a military airstrike killed at least 16 people in northwestern Zamfara state after an army jet mistook local vigilantes for criminal gangs active in Zurmi district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last December, a military jet killed 10 people and wounded six others when it hit two villages while bombing positions of Lakurawa jihadists in neighbouring Sokoto state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2023, a Nigerian military airstrike mistook a Muslim religious gathering for bandits in the Tudun Biri community in northwestern Kaduna state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That attack killed at least 85 people, mainly women and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in January 2017, at least 112 people were killed when a fighter jet struck a camp housing 40,000 people displaced by jihadist violence in the town of Rann near the border with Cameroon. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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