Clashes between gangs, vigilantes kill over 50 in northern Nigeria: residents

GUSAU, Nigeria: Clashes between criminal gangs and local vigilantes have left more than 50 people dead in northwestern Nigeria’s Zamfara state, residents told AFP Saturday. Zamfara is one of several states in northwest and central Nigeria terrorized by kidnapping-for-ransom and cattle-rustling gangs who raid villages, kill and abduct residents as well as looting homes before burning them. Locals call the gangs bandits. Vigilantes from Zoma village in Bukkuyum district ambushed the bandits wh

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