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At least 36 people have been killed in attacks by armed groups on villages in two northern Nigerian states, amid continuing insecurity in the country.
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Reuters reported, Wednesday evening, that local officials and sources said that the last 48 hours witnessed a series of attacks by armed gangs in which 16 people were killed in the villages of Kaduna State and 16 others in Katsina state.
The sources added that the attacks resulted in the deaths of a number of wounded, and the militants burned houses in the targeted villages and displaced the people.
Nigeria is facing a continuous escalation of the security situation as the authorities seek to contain the activities of armed groups in the northeast of the country and sectarian violence in the central states.
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Hundreds of people have been killed in the north of the country during the past months with attacks by criminal gangs that engage in plundering and kidnapping people.
On February 17, the authorities of Niger State in Nigeria announced that armed men attacked a secondary school and kidnapped 42 people, including 27 students and a number of its employees and their families.
Source: “Reuters”
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