Jihadists’ attacks in Nigeria are gaining intensity when Lakurawa left behind burned villages and dozens of victims.
Fighters from the jihadist group Lakuraba on Sunday in the attack on the northwest of Nigeria killed 11 people and set fire to seven villages, the local police said on Monday. This is reported to TASR, according to the AFP report.
The attacks happened in the Nigerian state of Kebbi at the border with Niger. According to the police, it was probably an act of remuneration for killing the group commander by state security forces. The security forces published on Thursday that they killed the high -ranking commander of the jihadist group known as Maigem. Lakurawa’s units several days before murdered six civilians in the region.
“The attack was obviously a retribution for killing their commander, who was known for the attacks on the community in this area,” the police said.
The center and northwest of Nigeria has been struggling with banditism for a long time, in which gangs are kidnaping people and falling through villages, especially with the vision of enrichment. Ideologically motivated attacks lead in the area a relatively new group Lakurawa are more often in the east of the country. The group’s jihadists often come from Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. From their camps in the forests they carry out fatal attacks, kill cattle and select “ransom” from the locals. Lakurawa members call for a revolt against secular authorities and the introduction of a strict interpretation of Islamic law Sharia.
