![Violence has soared as criminal gangs involved in cattle rustling and kidnapping have carried out bloody raids. By Marco LONGARI (AFP/File)]()
At least 50 people were killed in multiple attacks by armed 'bandits' on villages in an area of northern Nigeria rife with cattle theft and kidnappings, local officials said Monday. Sources said around 100 armed assailants stormed into the villages of Kerawa, Zareyawa and Minda in Kaduna state at dawn on Sunday, gunning down worshippers as they ...