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'Bandits' kill eight security personnel in northwest Nigeria

Disarmed members of an anti-banditry vigilante group Zamfara in 2019. [AFP]

Gunmen from criminal gangs on Thursday killed eight security personnel in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara state, the state governor and police said.

Zamfara is one of several states in northwestern and central Nigeria that have for years been terrorized by criminal gangs known as "bandits" who steal cattle, raid villages, kidnap and kill residents and loot and burn homes.

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