On May 26, 2020, over seventy-four people were killed on multiple attacks in villages in Sabon Birni LGA in Sokoto State, Nigeria.
Bandits have ravaged Sokoto State and other parts of Nigeria for years, including predominantly Hausa areas of the country.
Survivors of the massacres stated that the residents were aware of the bandits planning reprisal attacks against Garki, and called the police ahead of time.
[5] Prior to the attack, the bandits sought help from sympathetic locals in the towns of Isa and Bafarawa in Sokoto and Maradun in Zamfara State.
A police officer stated that between three and five in the evening, the department received a call that around 150 motorcycles with two men on each were heading through multiple villages on their way to Garki.
[3][2][5] Survivors from Garki stated that they received phone calls from the other villages during the attacks warning them of what was happening.
[8] Hundreds of displaced survivors from Garki and other villages fled to Sabon Birni, the capital of the LGA, seeking safety and shelter.