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17 people killed by gunmen in northwest Nigeria
Gunmen have killed 17 people including five policemen in separate attacks in northwest Nigeria's Katsina state in the latest wave of violence in the region, police and a local official said Thursday. Northwest and central Nigeria are a hub of criminal gangs known locally as bandits who raid villages, killing or abducting residents after looting and burning homes. The criminals, who maintain camps in a vast forest straddling Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna and Niger states, were declared terrorists by Nigeria's government in January. Late on Wednesday, a group of around 300 bandits on motorcycles attacked a police post near Gatakawa village in Kankara district, killing five

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