Gunmen have killed 19 security personnel, including 13 soldiers, in Kebbi State, a security source and residents said Wednesday.

The battle erupted late Tuesday in Kanya, a village in Danko-Wasagu district, just a day after dozens of members of a self-defence militia were killed in the same area.

The PUNCH had reported that about 57 vigilantes were killed in nearby Sakaba on Monday in an ambush by heavily armed criminal gangs known locally as bandits.

Hundreds of gunmen invaded Kanya, engaging a combined military and police detachment in a three-hour gunfight, the source and residents said.

“The death toll stands at 19. They include 13 soldiers, five policemen and one vigilante,” a security personnel, who did not want to be identified, told AFP.

He said eight other security personnel, including four soldiers, were hospitalised with wounds.

“It was an intense fight that lasted more than three hours. The terrorists had the upper hand because of their sheer number.”



Military and police did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the incident.

Local resident Musa Arzika, who gave the same toll, said the attackers came on “around 200 motorcycles riding three on each” and laid siege on the village.

“The bodies of 13 soldiers, five policemen and one vigilante killed in the fight were taken to Zuru this morning,” he said.

“We believe they were the same bandits who killed the vigilantes that attacked our village,” he said.

Northwest and central Nigeria have been terrorised for years by criminal gangs who raid villages, killing and abducting residents for ransom after looting and burning homes.

https://punchng.com/breaking-bandits-kill-13-soldiers-five-policemen-vigilante-in-kebbi/

Happening under the lifeless man who promised to lead from the front

Unknown bandits now

Only God can save us

Lord have mercy.

stixxy:
Only God can save us

What??

They are still bandits not terrorists, a group that can take 13 soldiers at ago, I am sorry for Nigeria!

This country is close to imploding , it's just a matter of time.
Many people are becoming poor due to inflation , which will worsens even more .
Bandits , kidnappers, ritualists,unknown gunmen will increase and crime will skyrocket

If this killings had taken place in South East there would have been a Russia invasion over Ukraine.

Kill a whole 13 Python Dancers?
These are the people the Govt should declare full fledged war on, &not groups seeking for self-determination.

treesun:
They are still bandits not terrorists, a group that can take 13 soldiers at ago, I am sorry for Nigeria!

Even Ukraine is not loosing that number of soldiers in a day in full blown war with Russia

Minime10:


Even Ukraine is not loosing that number of soldiers in a day in full blown war with Russia

Thank you. And a lot of people still believe Nigeria is not at war.

Minime10:


Even Ukraine is not loosing that number of soldiers in a day in full blown war with Russia

A nation killing her own children like chicken!

Lalasticlala

Our leaders are guilty!

Yet, IPOB is the priority for one-nigeria apologists like oyigboupdate, satanically and co, who have turned into thread-opening addicts on NL.

They won't open threads to talk about Bokoharam iswap terrorists killing our security agents everyday...but they'll gladly support the burning down of villages over minor issues in the East. Bias mofos

Horrible

AntiBMC:
Yet, IPOB is the priority for one-nigeria apologists like oyigboupdate, satanically and co, who have turned into thread-opening addicts on NL.

They won't open threads to talk about Bokoharam iswap terrorists killing our security agents everyday...but they'll gladly support the burning down of villages over minor issues in the East. Bias mofos

Because bandits kill soldiers in Kebbi unknown gunmen should do same and we should clap. No not in my land. Pick your bags and go to Kebbi

See how soldiers are being killed like chickens. Even Ukraine haven’t lost soldiers they way Nigeria is losing soldiers despite the fact that the war is between them and a bigger country.

SMH

OyigboUpdate:


Because bandits kill soldiers in Kebbi unknown gunmen should do same and we should clap. No not in my land. Pick your bags and go to Kebbi

You wish. You have said it countless times that you are carrying out a personal vendetta on MNK...for stopping ur human trafficking and drug business in Turkey, leading to ur deportation. So why are you still deceiving urself with that totally baseless excuse of “protecting ur land”? Ekuke feeling funky

How powerful are the bandits!

To be honest, I am very happy at this news.

They should have killed more soldiers like times 10 of that number.

All the atrocities of Hausa/Fulani soldiers in the East must reaped a hundred fold in this life an the next.

Meanwhile, #Biafraremainsourhomeland.

.......the enemies of Nigeria will loose.
Both Bandits, IPOB, Killer herdsmen, skull miners.

Peace is all we want

Ok, no problem

SparrowLeague:
.......the enemies of Nigeria will loose.

Both Bandits, IPOB, Killer herdsmen, skull miners.


Peace is all we want

Amen and their sponsors!

AntiBMC:


You wish. You have said it countless times that you are carrying out a personal vendetta on MNK...for stopping ur human trafficking and drug business in Turkey, leading to ur deportation. So why are you still deceiving urself with that totally baseless excuse of “protecting ur land”? Ekuke feeling funky

Bingo

Two questions: first is, i wonder if the army will adopt a scorched earth policy in handling this most recent slaughter of their personnel….as is their favourite approach in the south-east; and second is, why is this thread still stuck on page one since it was created this afternoon….when similar threads concerning the south-east would have been approaching page ten by now!?

IGBOSON1:
Two questions: first is, i wonder if the army will adopt a scorched earth policy in handling this most recent slaughter of their personnel….as is their favourite approach in the south-east; and second is, why is this thread still stuck on page one since it was created this afternoon….when similar threads concerning the south-east would have been approaching page ten by now!?

the reason is because they love to hate Igbo people with all their heart and all their might and some useless ones from the south aid them in doing that ?