Running battles in Nigeria between heavily armed bandits and security forces have claimed more than 80 lives since March 6 while thousands of local villagers near the clashes have become internally displaced, The Epoch Times has learned.
The firefights between motorcycle-riding bandits armed with assault rifles and small landowners using homemade single-shot rifles have been frequent since early January, and fit into the emerging picture of lawlessness spreading across five of Nigeria’s northwestern states.
