{"id":1814,"date":"2025-07-19T06:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T06:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/19\/at-least-9-killed-many-abducted-in-bandit-gang-attack-in-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T06:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T06:50:10","slug":"at-least-9-killed-many-abducted-in-bandit-gang-attack-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/19\/at-least-9-killed-many-abducted-in-bandit-gang-attack-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 9 killed, many abducted in \u2018bandit\u2019 gang attack in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many women and children were reportedly abducted in the deadly attack in northwestern Zamfara State.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At least nine people have been reported killed and many abducted following an attack in Nigeria\u2019s northwest, residents and local officials said, amid increasing violence against farmers by what have been described as \u201cbandit\u201d gangs.<\/p>\n

The deadly attack on Friday took place in Zamfara<\/a> state, the epicentre of attacks by heavily armed men known locally as bandits who have been wreaking havoc across Nigeria\u2019s northwest in recent years, kidnapping thousands, killing hundreds and making it unsafe to travel by road.<\/p>\n

Hamisu Faru, a local lawmaker, confirmed the attack to the Reuters news agency, saying the assailants took \u201cno fewer than 100 people, including women and children\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I\u2019m speaking to you right now, they are searching house-to-house, abducting people,\u201d Faru said by phone.<\/p>\n

Yahaya Yari Abubakar, political administrator of Talata Mafara district, where the attack was carried out, told the AFP news agency that nine people were killed in total and at least 15 local people were abducted.<\/p>\n

Abu Zaki, a resident of the district\u2019s Jangebe village, said the victims included the head of the village\u2019s vigilante self-defence group and his five colleagues, along with three residents.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody is now afraid of going to the farm for fear of being attacked,\u201d said another resident, Bello Ahmadu, who corroborated the reported death toll.<\/p>\n

Jangebe village was the scene in 2021 of the mass abduction of almost 300 female students<\/a> from a boarding school. The girls were freed days later after authorities made a ransom payment.<\/p>\n

Another resident in the area, Mohammed Usman, told Reuters that the attackers laid siege to the town for nearly two hours before taking their captives. Thousands of residents have now fled the village, he said.<\/p>\n

Zamfara<\/a> police did not immediately respond to requests for comments.<\/p>\n

Nigeria\u2019s bandits maintain camps in a huge forest straddling Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Niger states, in unrest that has evolved from clashes between herders and farmers over land and resources into a broader conflict fuelled by arms trafficking.<\/p>\n

Zamfara\u2019s state government has recruited vigilantes and armed militias to assist the military in fighting the bandits.<\/p>\n

Last month, vigilantes, with the aid of Nigeria\u2019s secret police, killed about 100 people when they raided the enclave of a gang kingpin in the state\u2019s Shinkafi district, according to officials.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Source: <\/p>\n

Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many women and children were reportedly abducted in the deadly attack in northwestern Zamfara State. At least nine people have been reported killed and many abducted following an attack in Nigeria\u2019s northwest, residents and local officials said, amid increasing violence against farmers by what have been described as \u201cbandit\u201d gangs. The deadly attack on Friday … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}