36 killed in two attacks in northern Nigeria

SANAA, Feb. 25 (YPA) – Officials and residents said that “gunmen killed 36 people in two attacks in northern Nigeria, on Wednesday, one day after attackers fired RPGs, amid deteriorating security in the country.

Armed groups carried out a series of attacks during the past forty-eight hours, in which 18 people were killed in Kaduna and Katsina states, and many others were wounded.
The attackers burned down homes and displaced villagers in both states.
Hundreds of people have been killed in northern Nigeria at the hands of criminal gangs carrying out robberies and kidnappings.
Such attacks add to the security challenges in Nigeria, which is finding it difficult to contain insurgencies in the northeast and violence in the central states over grazing rights.
The latest attack came less than a month after President Muhammadu Buhari decided to change army commanders as violence intensified, while the armed forces were fighting to retake towns in the northeast that were overrun by the rebels.