Reuters TEMILADE ADELAJA
The Nigerian police announced the killing of four police officers and the loss of a fifth, in an attack carried out by an armed gang of bandits in the northwest of the country last Friday.
A spokesman for the Nigerian Federal Police said in a statement: “About a hundred armed men attacked 16 police officers on a highway while returning to their headquarters in Kano state.”
Armed groups of bandits roam the northwestern region of Nigeria, committing crimes such as armed robbery, kidnapping, cattle rustling and murder.
Source: Reuters
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