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Gunmen abduct at least 10 hospital workers in Nigeria’s Niger state

Gunmen abduct at least 10 hospital workers in Nigeria’s Niger state

GUNMEN have abducted at least 10 healthcare workers in Nigeria's Niger state and killed an unspecified number after bandits invaded a general hospital early, a hospital and a military source said. Armed bandits operating for cash have kidnapped or killed hundreds across northwest Nigeria. Niger state officials have said that the Islamist militant group Boko Haram had taken over multiple communities in the state, offering villagers money and incorporating them into their ranks to fight the government. The hospital source said more than 20 staff were kidnapped, including patient relatives, while the security source said two people had been killed…
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Gunmen kill 11 at Russian army base in new blow to Moscow’s Ukraine campaign

Gunmen kill 11 at Russian army base in new blow to Moscow’s Ukraine campaign

PAVEL POLITYUK RUSSIA has opened a criminal investigation after gunmen shot dead 11 people at a military training ground near the Ukrainian border, authorities said, as fighting raged in eastern and southern Ukraine. Russia's RIA news agency, citing the defence ministry, said two gunmen had opened fire during a firearms training exercise on Saturday, targeting a group who had volunteered to fight in Ukraine. The "terrorists" themselves were shot dead, it said. The incident is the latest blow to President Vladimir Putin's "special military operation" in Ukraine and comes a week after a blast damaged a bridge linking mainland Russia to Crimea,…
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Police hunt gunmen who fired 137 rounds in Soweto bar shooting

Police hunt gunmen who fired 137 rounds in Soweto bar shooting

NQOBILE DLUDLA POLICE are hunting for five attackers who burst into a bar in Soweto, South Africa and killed 15 customers in a hail of at least 137 bullets over the weekend, the police minister said. Nine other people were wounded in the raid in the early hours of Sunday morning that followed closely on two other shootings in a surge of violence that shocked a nation with one of the world's highest murder rates. "It was such a brutality," Police Minister Bheki Cele told a crowd gathered at the scene in Soweto's Orlando East neighbourhood. "These people really came…
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Gunmen kill 19 people in ‘random’ bar shootings in South Africa

Gunmen kill 19 people in ‘random’ bar shootings in South Africa

NQOBILE DLUDLA and TIM COCKS GUNMEN killed 19 people in two apparently random shootings within hours of each other at taverns in South Africa, police said, reinforcing the country's bleak status as a global centre for murder. Attackers armed with rifles and pistols opened fire in the Orlando East bar in the township of Soweto in the early hours of Sunday, killing 15 people and wounding nine, police said. "You can see by the way the bullet cartridges are cast around that they were just shooting randomly," said Elias Mawela, police commissioner for Gauteng province. Sololo Mjoli's two sons, Sthembiso,…
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At least 30 Nigerian soldiers killed in ambush after mine attack

At least 30 Nigerian soldiers killed in ambush after mine attack

AT least 30 Nigerian soldiers were killed in an ambush after gunmen attacked a mine in the Shiroro area of Niger state earlier this week, three sources said. The troops were among security forces deployed to search for mine workers, including four Chinese nationals, said to have been kidnapped during the attack on Wednesday. Emmanuel Umar, the commissioner for state security in northwestern Niger, initially said an unknown number of people had been killed during the mine attack in Ajata Aboki village. When the security forces responded to the attack, the gunmen ambushed them and opened fire, killing 30 soldiers…
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Gunmen attack kills at least 50 in Nigeria’s Plateau state

Gunmen attack kills at least 50 in Nigeria’s Plateau state

AT least 50 people were killed and dozens abducted by gunmen in Nigeria's Plateau state, residents and a community leader said, the latest in a spate of attacks by armed gangs in northern parts of Africa's most populous nation. Such attacks are not common in Plateau, in central Nigeria. But the state shares a border with Kaduna state, where suspected bandits - a loose term for gangs of outlaws carrying out robberies and kidnappings - blew up train tracks, killed eight people and kidnapped dozens last month. Fifteen soldiers were killed last week by gunmen who attacked a Kaduna army…
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Five abducted from Mali construction site

Five abducted from Mali construction site

THREE Chinese nationals and two Mauritanians have been abducted from a construction site in northern Mali when gunmen raided the site for equipment and took hostages, the army said. The raid took place 55 kilometres (34 miles) from the town of Kwala, a regular transit point for companies moving through Mali's desert north, the army said in a statement. Later that evening, gunmen attacked a road checkpoint in the country's central San region, around 400 km from Bamako, and killed three civilians, the army said in a second statement. No group has yet taken responsibility for either attack. Parts of…
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Gunmen kill Nigerian army general

Gunmen kill Nigerian army general

GUNMEN shot dead a Nigerian army general as he was travelling by car on a major road from the capital, Abuja, the army has announced, in the first such fatal gun attack on a senior serving military officer. Armed robberies and kidnappings for ransom, particularly in the northwest, have become so frequent that many are afraid to travel by road. Growing nationwide lawlessness led legislators in April to call on the president to declare a state of emergency. Major General Hassan Ahmed was killed when gunmen attacked his vehicle along the Lokoja-Abuja road on Thursday, army spokesman Brigadier General Onyema…
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Gunmen kill at least 45 people in Nigeria

Gunmen kill at least 45 people in Nigeria

MILITANTS killed at least 45 people in an attack on the town of Faru in northwest Nigeria, according to residents and a hospital worker. Such violence has increasingly become a part of everyday life in the region, with the Nigerian government and security forces showing little ability to stem the deterioration of law and order. "The armed bandits stormed Faru town on more than 100 motorbikes, shooting sporadically on the people at about twelve noon yesterday," said Abubakar Iliyasu, a resident who witnessed the attack. Another resident, Musa Dan Auta, also said the gunmen killed 45 people, while a local…
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One killed, 10 kidnapped in Nigerian school raid

One killed, 10 kidnapped in Nigerian school raid

GARBA MUHAMMAD ONE student was killed and at least 10 people were kidnapped when gunmen raided a school in northern Nigeria, officials have told Reuters. The gunmen attacked the main campus of the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic in Zaria, Kaduna state, shooting sporadically and abducting two lecturers and eight students, according to Samuel Aruwan, the state's commissioner of internal security. Two students were shot, one fatally, while the other was being treated in hospital, Aruwan said. Aliyu Kofa, chairman of the school's chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), said two lecturers and about 10 students were kidnapped. He…
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