Overview
- A large group of gunmen on about 50 motorcycles attacked Binnari village just after Friday prayers, survivors and a community leader told reporters.
- Local police said 10 bodies were recovered by Friday evening, while survivors speaking to AFP reported at least 20 deaths and Amnesty International put the toll at 40.
- Witnesses and the community leader said attackers looted shops, took cash and food, and seized motorcycles abandoned by people fleeing the raid.
- Amnesty International criticised authorities for leaving rural areas exposed to repeated attacks, and the military separately reported it killed 15 fighters in an unrelated air strike in Borno state.
- The raid fits a wider pattern of non‑ideological banditry across rural Nigeria where weak state presence, kidnappings for ransom, and raids on farms leave remote communities especially vulnerable.