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2020-11-23 Africa Subsaharan

Gunmen kill five in mosque attack in Nigeria: Police

[AlAhram] Gunmen have killed five worshippers and kidnapped 18 in an attack on a mosque during prayers in northwestern Nigeria's Zamfara state, police said Sunday.

Around 100 cattle thieves on cycle of violences opened fire on a Moslem congregation in remote Dutsen Gari village in Maru district as residents were observing the weekly Friday prayers.

"The bandidos killed five worshippers and kidnapped 18 others, including the imam," state police front man Mohammed Shehu told AFP.

Residents however said more than 30 worshippers were kidnapped.

"The button men attacked the mosque while the imam was delivering the sermon and took away more than 30 people, including the imam, after shooting dead five worshippers," one resident, Ibrahim Altine, told AFP.

Northwest Nigeria is a hotbed of criminal gangs who raid villages, stealing cattle, kidnapping for ransom and burning homes after looting food supplies.

The gangs maintain camps in the Rugu forest which straddles Katsina, Zamfara, Kaduna and Niger states from where they launch attacks.

Troop deployments and peace talks with local authorities have failed to end the attacks.

Unlike Boko Haram

... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
jihadists, the criminal gangs have no ideological leanings, but concerns are growing that the jihadists are gradually infiltrating the gangs.

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