According to the newspaper, five police officers, who were on duty when bandits attacked them, were killed in the northwestern Kaduna state. In another incident, bandits raided several homes in a village in Kaduna and killed an 80-year-old woman.

Four other law enforcement officers were killed in Nigeria’s western Niger state following a shootout with bandits. One policeman is still missing after the attack, the newspaper reported. In a separate event in the same state, bandits killed a Catholic priest on Friday night in the Tufa village.

Moreover, Vanguard reported that a clash between two cult groups left four people dead in the Cameroon-bordering Cross River state.