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Banditry and community raids in Nigeria

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Banditry and community raids have resulted in killings and abductions across several Nigerian states. In late September, attacks in Niger and Zamfara states saw gunmen on motorcycles kill one person and abduct 10 others in Niger State’s Shiroro Local Government Area, while also burning houses and stealing cattle. In Zamfara, a midnight raid on Tsafe resulted in the abduction of five residents. On October 1, suspected bandits attacked the Babban Saura community in Kaduna State’s Chikun Local Government Area. During the raid, a resident named Sikiru was shot and killed while resisting. The attackers abducted a wife and two children from Area, killing one residence, and a woman named Maman Mubarak along with her four children from another. Although security forces tracked the attackers resident and rescued Maman Mubarak, the bandits escaped with the other victims. abducting several others. By October 7, further mid-October, violence was reported in Kaduna and Sokoto states. escalated. In Kaduna’s Zangon Kataf Local Government Area, Kaduna, gunmen killed four people, including a seven-year-old child, and burned seven houses, a car, and a motorcycle at in Wawan Rafi II village. In the Giwa Local Government Area, a resident was shot dead at a sugarcane farm, village, while in Kajuru, community vigilantes killed one assailant during an attempted kidnapping. In Sokoto State, bandits a kidnapping attempt in the Shagari Local Government Area killed Kajuru. In Sokoto, a police inspector, identified as Isah Muhammad Girkau, and robbed passengers near Sanyin Nawal village. inspector was killed during a robbery. On the weekend of October 10-12, at least 24 people were killed in two separate attacks involving bandit gangs and jihadist groups. In Zamfara State’s Bukkuyum district, gunmen ambushed attacks: 13 in a Zamfara trader convoy, killing 13 people, including eight soldiers, one police officer, convoy ambush and four traders. In Niger State’s Borgu district, 11 by suspected Lakurawa jihadists killed 11 people, including four in Niger State. In mid-October, security volunteers, during an incursion into operations in Kaduna led to the Kigbera community. arrest of 12 suspects, though bandits abducted a local councillor and his two sons in Zaria. In Zamfara, gunmen killed a resident despite a ransom being paid and threatened to burn vehicles on the Dansadau-Gusau road. By late October, violence surged in Zamfara as a terror leader led an assault on a military base, killing 14 security personnel and extorting a “protection levy” of approximately ₦360 million. Meanwhile, in Sokoto, bandits attacked a settlement near Usmanu Danfodiyo University, stealing cattle and wounding a resident.

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  1. 2026-10-27 00:20 UTC Banditry and community raids in Nigeria
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  4. 2026-10-07 16:34 UTC Banditry and community raids in Nigeria
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