Nigeria says troops kill dozens of gunmen in northwest and northeast | Armed Groups News

Authorities claims 24 fighters ‘neutralised’ around northeast Borno state and 30 armed men killed in northwest Katsina.

Nigeria’s military and security forces have killed dozens of armed men in separate operations in the northwest and the northeast of the country, authorities have said.

Security forces killed at least 30 gunmen after armed attacks in the restive northwest, Nasir Mua’zu, Katsina state’s commissioner for internal affairs, said on Thursday.

He claimed “criminals”…