Gangs kill 38 people to steal cattle in an African country

Militants killed 38 civilians in three attacks they carried out in Kaduna state in northern Nigeria, according to a local official, who indicated that the attackers belonged to gangs for stealing livestock, in an incident that falls within the framework of the bloody violence that surrounds the region.

The assailants, who usually carry out their attacks on motorbikes, stormed the villages of Quran Fawa, Marki and Rehea in Giwa district on Sunday, said Samuel Arwan, commissioner of internal affairs for Kaduna state.

"Security agencies have confirmed ... that 38 people were killed in the areas that were attacked," Arwan said.

He continued, "Houses, trucks, cars and agricultural crops were burned on several farms."

The bodies of 29 of the victims were identified.

For several years, northwest and central Nigeria have witnessed attacks by criminal gangs, whose members the locals call “bandits” because they rob villagers and travelers of their money and kidnap them for ransom in exchange for their release.

These gangs have recently escalated and expanded their attacks, targeting schools to kidnap students and demand ransom for their release.

For months, the authorities cut off communications in the area and launched a military campaign, but they were unable to put an end to the violence.

Kaduna is one of the three states most exposed to violence. In August, an armed gang stormed a heavily fortified camp of the Nigerian Army's elite forces in Kaduna City, in an attack that killed two officers and kidnapped another, causing great embarrassment to the Nigerian Armed Forces.

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