100 killed in central Nigeria attacks

KANO: At least 100 people were killed in weekend attacks on three villages in central Nigeria, local officials said Sunday.
Scores of residents were also injured when about 40 assailants armed with guns and machetes stormed the villages of Angwan Gata, Chenshyi and Angwan Sankwai, attacking locals in their sleep and torching their homes, said Yakubu Bitiyong, a lawmaker at the Kaduna state parliament.
“We have at least 100 dead bodies from the three villages attacked by the gunmen” overnight Friday-Saturday, he told AFP.
Some of the victims “were shot and burnt in their homes while others were hacked with machetes,” Bitiyong said.