48 total On June 30, 2022, gunmen ambushed Nigerian soldiers responding to a distress call of an attack on a mining village.
[2] Since a 2009 uprising, militant Islamist organization Boko Haram has launched a guerrilla insurgency in northern Nigeria.
[7] The bandits immediately shot and killed seven policemen at the scene along with some civilians, and then proceeded to shoot sporadically to scare the remaining workers.
[10] Following the attack, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu stated that Nigerian officials were "on the trail of the criminals, with some already neutralized".
[11] Niger State governor Abubakar Sani Bello demanded security agencies go "all out" to ensure the kidnapped victims are returned safely.