Nigeria Massacre: Heavy Toll of Dead and Kidnapped in Armed Attack.

A bloody armed attack in the village of Tungar Dutsifi in Zamfara State, northwestern Nigeria, has left approximately fifty people dead and an unknown number of women and children missing. A Zamfara state legislator reported Friday that the attack, which began Thursday evening and continued until the following dawn, involved the burning of a large number of buildings and indiscriminate shooting at residents as they attempted to flee. Lawmaker Hamisu A. Faru stated that the number of missing persons remains unclear, and local authorities are working to determine their fate. This incident comes amid a growing wave of violence in the region, with repeated attacks targeting villages and leading to the kidnapping of civilians by armed groups.