Jihadists have kidnapped and killed scores of people in an attack on worshippers during Friday prayers in central Nigeria.The Mail has the story:
The exact toll of the attacks, which also hit the village of Binzi in Niger State, was unknown, federal representative Jafaru Mohammed said.
Jibril Ahmad, a civilian who survived the attack, said: “Soon after finishing the normal Friday prayer, the armed group of Lakuwara, in their hundreds, wielding guns, knives and machetes, began to attack us.”
“They slaughtered some of our people, saying we are not practising the true teachings of Islam,” Ahmad added.
Some are understood to have escaped when another jihadist group, known as Mahmuda, started clashing with the militants.
It was also confirmed today that armed men abducted over 60 worshippers from a nearby mosque.
Police spokesperson Wasiu Abiodun said the attackers stormed Kpenya Mosque in the Dekara district of the Borgu local government area at about 2pm on Friday after first attacking Gidan-Zana and Kpenya villages. …
Africa’s most populous country is battling a 17-year insurgency by jihadist groups, who have made such abductions a key tactic – including the 2014 kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls in the town of Chibok.
The insurgency is concentrated in the northeast, though Friday’s attack was in the west of the country, an area that has seen increased activity by armed groups and militants from the Sahel as the conflict has splintered. …
The latest kidnapping comes just weeks after 163 kidnapped Nigerians were rescued from jihadi captivity.
The freed captives, mostly women and children, were handed over to authorities by security forces in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State, earlier this month.
The Nigerians were abducted on February 3rd when jihadi militants stormed the village of Woro, killing over 160 others.
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And yet this country is one of the Uniparties favorite sources of migrant labour……???
Religion of Peace
Protected and raised above all others by Western Governments. So it must be right
Violent savages doing what violent savages do.
And increasingly they are also doing it on the streets of Britain.
This will probably be censored but hasn’t the leader of the Conservatives got some connections to the country in the above article? Just asking.
Yes, but a significant percentage of Nigerians are Christians who don’t slaughter people for worshipping a different God let alone the same God in a slightly different way. Thankfully Christianity put violence against people from different denominations, apostates, heretics behind it hundreds of years ago, obviously with a few shameful aberrations, the last auto de fe (public execution of heretics) took place in Mexico in 1850.
NTDWI.
Nothing to do with islam.
How dare ANYONE describe Islam as a ‘religion of peace’
In colonial days a single British official would adjudicate over millions of people of different religions in Nigeria and peace reigned in Her Majesty’s name.
I met one of them once on home leave and knew his daughter.