More than 200 people have been killed in retaliatory attacks by militant groups following an air strike by the military on Nigerian armed groups.
According to the foreign news agency Reuters, locals said that after the siege of the area by the army, the residents went to the village on Saturday for the mass burial of the victims, the government said that 58 people were killed in these attacks.
Amaro Makeri, a local man who lost his wife and three children in the attack, said about 154 people had been buried, many of them on guard duty.
Locals say the death toll is at least 200.
More than 300 armed robbers on motorcycles entered eight villages in the Zamfara area on Tuesday and opened fire, and a Reuters report on Friday confirmed the deaths of 30 people.
The military says it carried out air strikes on various targets of robbers in the forests of Zamfara on Monday morning, killing more than 100 robbers, including their ringleader.
A local man, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the attack on the village could be a response to military action.
There have been a number of attacks in northern Nigeria and since the end of 2020 these attacks, including kidnappings and other violent crimes, have risen sharply as the government struggles to maintain law and order.
A spokesman for the governor of the Nigerian state of Cabi said in a statement that 30 students abducted from a college in northwestern Niger State Cabi had been released on Saturday.
President Muhammad Bukhari said in a statement on Saturday that the army has been provided with more equipment to track down and eliminate criminal groups that have been torturing civilians.
"The recent attacks on innocent people by dacoits are a step towards the desperation of those who were massacring people under relentless pressure from our army," Bukhari said.
Muhammad Bukhari further said that the government would not back down from its ongoing military operation to eliminate the dacoits.
