Nigerian troops killed over 300 members of kidnapping and cattle rustling gangs, known locally as bandits, in the northwestern state of Zamfara this week, a state official said Friday. Troops targeted the gangs in Gummi district in a two-day operation that "led to the elimination of more than 300 terrorists," Zamfara information commissioner Mahmud Muhammad Dantawasa said in a statement.

Nigerian troops killed over 300 members of kidnapping and cattle rustling gangs, known locally as bandits, in the northwestern state of Zamfara this week, a state official said…

Gangs made up of cattle rustlers and jihadists have long terrorised communities in northern and central Nigeria