‘Bandits’ started attacks in Bokkos area and spilled into neighbouring Barkin Ladi, according to local chairman

Armed groups have killed at least 160 people in central Nigeria in a series of attacks on villages, local government officials said on Monday.

The toll marked a sharp rise from the initial figure reported by the army on Sunday evening of just 16 dead in a region plagued for several years by religious and ethnic tensions.

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