The Nigeria Police Force has confirmed the killing of scores of people, including women and children by terrorists, locally dubbed as bandits in Katsina and Borno states respectively in different attacks. In Katsina, while some locals claimed 25 were killed, the state police command confirmed seven dead and 18 injured who had been taken to the hospital in Musawa. Meanwhile in Borno, the police confirmed the attack but could not specify the fatalities saying they would make that known in due course.
At least 25 people, including women and children, were reportedly killed as bandits attacked a gathering of Maulud celebrants in Kusa, a community in Musawa LGA of Katsina State. This is even as no fewer than 15 rice farmers from the Zabarmari community of Borno State, who were harvesting crops in Karkut, Bulabulin and Koshebe…