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Not Up To Three Months, Bandits Kill 323, Kidnap 949 In Kaduna

By on May 1st, 2021

A  total  of  323  people  were  killed  while  949  others  kidnapped  within  three  months  in  a  spate  of  attacks  by  bandits  who  have  been  on  the  rampage  in  Nigeria’s  northwestern  state  of  Kaduna,  official  data  released  by  the  government  on  Friday  indicated.

From the security report for the first quarter of 2021, the Kaduna government also confirmed that troops killed 64 bandits and arrested several gunrunners during the period under review.

According to Samuel Aruwan, the commissioner for internal security and home affairs in the state, the report covers various attacks, including banditry, reprisal attacks, kidnapping, and cattle-rustling in the northern state.

Of the total number of deaths recorded from the various aforementioned attacks, 20 were women and 11 were minors, Aruwan noted.

The official said, however, that multiple scores of bandits were neutralized via about 150 targeted aerial missions conducted by the Nigeria air force during the period under review.

“These missions were initiated based on credible intelligence of bandit activity and locations of camps, which were targeted and destroyed,” he said.

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