Nigerian troops kill 30 bandits in gunfight
ABUJA, Jan 19 (NNN-Xinhua) — Thirty bandits were killed in a gunfight with troops in Nigeria’s northwest region, a spokesman for the military said.
The incident occurred on Sunday at the Maje Riverline axis in the Bugundu local government area of the northern state of Zamfara, said Ibikunle Daramola, a spokesman for the Nigerian Airforce.
Daramola said that the operation was in response to reports that scores of bandits, along with a large number of rustled livestock, were spotted heading toward Kekuwuje, a town along the Yar-Katsina road in Zamfara.
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