Overview
- Police confirmed at least 30 fatalities in Kasuwan-Daji, while residents counted 37 and a Catholic Church spokesman reported more than 40, with some abductees said to be children.
- The assailants torched the local market and destroyed several houses during the Saturday evening raid in Borgu local government area.
- Residents said no security forces had reached the area as of Sunday, contradicting police statements that officers were deployed to search for the kidnapped.
- Survivors reported gunfire for up to three hours and said fear has kept people from retrieving bodies from the village.
- Authorities linked the gunmen to the National Park Forest near Kabe district, a known refuge for armed gangs, and the attack occurred near Papiri, site of a mass school kidnapping in November.