Gunmen kill 15 in northwest Nigeria - officials


  • World
  • Tuesday, 16 Nov 2021

ABUJA (Reuters) - Armed men killed 15 people in raids in Nigeria's Sokoto state, government officials said, despite a military effort to stamp out a tide of violence in the northwest.

Sokoto state Gov. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal described the attackers as "bandits graduating into terrorists".

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