Kano: Attackers burnt 21 people alive, including 16 members of a family, in a revenge attack by criminal gangs on a village in northern Nigeria, residents said on Thursday.
Gunmen on motorcycles raided the village of Bakali in Kaduna state on Tuesday, shooting and burning homes and vehicles to avenge a raid on their hideout by local vigilantes, inhabitants said.
u201c They killed 21 people in the attack,u201d Bakaliu2019s community leader, Sani Nuhu, told AFP. Residents said the assailants burnt 16 members of the same family after locking them in a house. Agencies 21 people burnt alive in Nigeria
