Accra: Dozens of people were reported killed in two suspected attacks by armed gangs in northeast Nigeria, a local state governor and villagers said on Saturday. Taraba state governor Agbu Kefas said in a statement that scores of people reportedly lost their lives and properties in the Karim Lamido district early Saturday.

According to Nam News Network, Governor Kefas did not give a precise figure, but locals in Munga and Magani villages said the death toll was nearly 30. Governor Kefas condemned in the strongest terms the violence, blaming it as horrendous and unacceptable. The district was recently attacked by armed gangs, referred to locally as bandits.

Armed gangs attack villages, killing or abducting local people for ransom and burning houses after looting them, especially in the northwest of the country. The killings were the latest in the wave of fatal violence that has gripped northeastern Nigeria in recent weeks, as jihadists stepped up attacks.