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Bandits attack Zamfara community, kill many
No fewer than 30 people have been killed in a fresh attack by armed bandits in Zamfara State, according to a security report prepared for the United Nations and seen by AFP on Monday.
The victims were said to be travelling along a highway in the state late Sunday when the attackers ambushed them.
The report disclosed that the gunmen killed “30 individuals, including civilians, hunters and a community protection guard.”
Bandit attacks have continued to trouble several communities across Nigeria’s North-West, especially in Zamfara, Kaduna and Katsina states, where residents frequently face kidnappings, killings and attacks on highways.
The latest incident comes despite ongoing military operations targeting criminal groups in the region.
Recall that troops of Sector 2 under the Joint Task Force North West, Operation FANSAN YAMMA, recently recorded another major breakthrough in the ongoing military campaign against terrorism and banditry in the North-West.
The troops neutralised armed terrorists and recovered a significant cache of weapons and ammunition during a coordinated fighting patrol in Zamfara State.
According to a statement issued by the Media Information Officer of Operation FANSAN YAMMA, Lieutenant Colonel Aliyu Danja, the operation was carried out in the early hours of Thursday, May 7, 2026, across parts of Kaura Namoda and Birnin Magaji Local Government Areas of Zamfara State.
The troops, acting on operational intelligence and sustained surveillance efforts, embarked on an aggressive fighting patrol designed to deny terrorists freedom of movement and disrupt their activities within the affected corridors.
During the operation, soldiers encountered heavily armed terrorists at Doumbourum Village, triggering what military authorities described as a fierce exchange of gunfire between the troops and the fleeing criminal elements.
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