Massacre: 18 butchered to death in northern Nigeria by sheep rearers
Zamfara State
Security services in Nigerian are combing the northwest region of the country for assailants who massacred 18 residents of a village.
The “bandits” armed with guns and machetes descended upon the village, ransacking farms and killing the villages as doors were opened after pretending they were on visit as well meaning visitors.
A police spokesman said on Sunday that 18 innocent souls were massacred susupecting a revenge attack.
Sunusi Amiru, a spokesman with Zamfara state police, said the investigation had commenced into “why and how” the group organized Saturday’s attack.
Six people were injured as a result of the raid, which occurred in the Lingyado village around 5 a.m. Saturday.
Zamfara, a state in northern Nigeria, is a largely rural, semi-autonomous region.
Lingyado, a village in the state of Zamfara sits at the base of the Sahel where Nigeria borders Niger Republic.
“We are on top of the situation, we are on the trail of the suspects, we have deployed more men to the trouble spots.”
The police did not say who the attackers were or what they wanted, although several houses were robbed during the assault.
Sectarian clashes are not uncommon in northern Nigeria, often ignited by local rivalries over religion, ethnicity and fertile farmland.
There was no evidence yet to suggest the attack was related to a radical Islamist sect based in the remote northeast which local officials have blamed for almost daily killings in its home base and deadly bomb attacks across the north.
Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is forbidden,” has carried out several bomb attacks in the northern part of the country including police headquarters in Abuja in June and an attack on United Nations building in early August. Nigeria Police Inspector General Abubakar Ringim narrowly escaped the Police HQ attack which came behind him as he entered the compound.
The sect took responsibility as a car full of explosives rammed into the U.N. building in the capital and killing 23 people.
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