Gunmen on Monday shot dead sixteen people praying inside a mosque in a village in west-central Nigeria, local authorities said on Tuesday (October 26th).
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The bandits shot dead 16 people inside the mosque while they were praying,
" Niger state government official Ahmed Ibrahim Matane told AFP, referring to the criminal groups that put the center and northwestern Nigeria on fire for several years.