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RAIDS
BY CATTLE THIEVES IN SOKOTO: DEATH TOLL CLIMBS TO 32.
By
Lovins Yakubu
July
12, 2018
Report reaching us now has it that the death
toll from raids by suspected cattle thieves in Sokoto state, North West Nigeria
has risen to 32 on Thursday. The National Emergency Management Agency, (NEMA)
coordinator for Sokoto, Suleiman Kadir said this, adding that over 2,000 people
were made homeless by the violence.
It was earlier reported that Bandits on motor
cycles on Monday, July 9 and Tuesday, July 10 attacked several villages on both
sides of the border between Sokoto and Zamfara States shooting residents,
burning homes and stealing cows.
In the attacks, five villages were said to
have been razed. The police said two in Rabah district of Sokoto and three in
Zamfara where kidnapping and cattle rustling gangs are known to operate.
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