‘We counted over 20 bodies after attackers left’ – Taraba massacre survivors

Gunmen swarmed a rural Nigerian village on motorcycles and killed at least 20 people, survivors told AFP on Saturday, in the latest attack in the country’s northeast.
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The attackers opened fire just after Friday prayers in the rural village of Binnari, in Taraba state, residents said.
Northeastern Nigeria is home to a long-running jihadist insurgency, though Taraba, located toward the centre of the country, also faces non-ideological “bandit” gangs.
Bandits raid villages, kidnap people for ransom and levy “taxes” on farmers or miners in rural areas of Nigeria with little state presence.
“People w...