Nigeria, Aug. 20 -- Bandits on Tuesday killed five crop farmers in a suspected reprisal attack in the Kakangi ward of the Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

The community's residents said the attack followed the killing of a cattle herder on Monday by suspected vigilantes from Wamba in the neighbouring Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State.

The convener, Birnin Gwari- Niger inter-border Community for Peace and Development, Ishaq Kasai, while speaking to PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday, alleged that the vigilante attack on the cattle herder was carried out to scuttle a peace deal with bandits that had brought relative peace to the Birnin-Gwari Emirate.

He said about seven farmers had been killed in the last two weeks by ...