Gunmen have killed 34 people in Nigeria‘s northern Zamfara state where criminal gangs have been terrorising remote villages, police said Sunday.

Armed bandits on motorcycles stormed into neighbouring Tungar Kafau and Gidan Wawa villages in Shinkafi district late Friday and shot dead 34 people, state police spokesman Mohammed Shehu said in a statement.

“Normalcy has been restored in Tungar Kafau and Gidan Wawa… following attack by armed bandits… where 34 people were killed,” Shehu said.

He said the victims of the attacks were buried on Saturday, adding police were on the trail of the killers.

Local residents put the death toll higher, at 35.

The bandits were said to have opened fire on farmers on their fields outside the villages and also pursued those who fled.

“The bandits killed 35 people in the attacks,” said Lawwali Madattai, a resident.

Rural communities in Zamfara state have for years been terrorised by criminal gangs who raid villages, stealing cattle, kidnapping for ransom and burning homes after looting food supplies.

The bandits are known to hide in camps in Rugu forest which straddles Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Niger states from where they launch attacks on communities in the area.

Last week, at least 40 people were killed and dozens injured in raids in eight remote villages in Niger state.

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Nigeria is a zoo

What is Nigeria turning to?? Insecurity everywhere... May God preserve my family and yours in Jesus name.

Evidence of a failed state after the order of Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, South Sudan and Libya, and the useless bastards called politicians are celebrating father's day eating chicken and turkey plus Hennessey at Abuja

I wish I can say such people do not deserve my rip but hey!! I am human. The north are the architect of their problems, they are mixing religion and politics and it is consuming them. fukk the dullard. The service chiefs are incompetent yet he refused to replace them. RIP to the dead.
The north is on time bomb

These killings in the north, I sometimes ask myself if it's Nollywood

The way this ppl are killing villagers...you will think is call of duty

These guys are Boko Haram, they should stop calling them bandits. Nigerian Army should intensify effort to wipe off these Boko Haram.

"Any national chaos or unrest that last for more than 24hrs, the President knows something about it" - Former Head of State Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida

It is time Nigerians hold President Buhari responsible for being untouched to do end all these incessant killings and insecurity in Nigeria; worst of, President Buhari has refused to sack the service chiefs who have failed in their responsibility to secure Nigerians and Nigeria...which means, Buhari is very much pleased and happy with the current insecurity situation all over Nigeria...who is fooling who

How many people remain with this incessant killings ?

E don do na

I think it is high time the Police ended up creating a Special forces unit...

Because it is obvious desperate times call for innovative measures.

Just as the Armed forces created the Special Forces to deal with Boko.

With all these everyday killings, are humans still remaining there?

How the government won't deny this

What is so difficult that we keep fighting bolo haram for almost a decade without success?
Lives are been lost daily.
Its more than a civil war.

Zero sympathy

Sai Buhari

Odi egwu...

Repeated attacks and security agencies aren't doing much.

Lol...nigeria...what i will say to my igbo brothers is this....hustle and leave nigeria....the world is too big to spend ur entire life in an aboki country run by the same people running niger republic. If u know u cant live in niger republic...then dont expect to live happy in nigeria....the 2 countries are ran by the same people.

Hustle and leave. There are more english people living outside england than inside. Spread ur wings

Terrorists

this kind next level no be here ooh

Eh nitori Olorun. Who we offend for Nigeria??. Wetin them want gan gan??

I no fit laugh




Useless Country, with clueless president

See the name of village na... Wawa ni..

Well Buhari knows what he is doing

Wow this Post has changed my perception about life
Thanks For Sharing!!!

Fulani oooo this pipu wan kee Zamfara natives finish before Buhari go declare dem terrorists??