At least 85 civilians were killed and 66 injured on Sunday evening when a military air operation in northern Nigeria “accidentally” attacked a site celebrating a religious festival, authorities said on Tuesday.
The air operation targeted “terrorists” camped in Nigeria’s Kaduna state, but the forces “accidentally” attacked the town of Tudun Biri, the regional office of the National Emergency Management Agency said in a statement.
Some Nigerian states – especially in the center and northwest of the country – are regularly attacked by ‘bandits’, a term used in the country to describe gangs of criminals who commit mass robberies and kidnappings for huge ransoms and are sometimes labeled as ‘ terrorists’. by the authorities.
Amnesty International’s Nigeria office said Monday that 120 people were killed in the attack, citing reports from staff and volunteers in the area.
“Many of them were children [e] More bodies are being discovered,” the organization’s director in Nigeria, Isa Sanusi, told the Associated Press (AP) news agency.
Source: DN
