Bandits kill 19 military, police personnel in Northern Nigeria

Motorcycles

Some of the motorcycles seized from bandits in Nigeria's North West Kebbi State on March 8, 2022 on the day attackers killed 19 military and security personnel. PHOTO | MOHAMMED MOMOH | NMG

A day after bandits killed 63 vigilantes in Nigeria’s North West Kebbi state, 19 military and security personnel have also been killed in an ambush on the state's deputy governor who was in the area to deliver his condolences. 

The security officers were killed on March 8, 2022 while defending the motorcade of Mr Samaila Yombe Dabai, the deputy governor of Kebbi State, against the marauding bandits.