Nigeria, Sept. 24 -- Residents of Ruwan Jema, a community in Bukkuyum area of Zamfara State said terrorists attacked a Jum'at mosque on Friday and killed 18 people.

Multiple local sources told PREMIUM TIMES that the attack began a few minutes after 1 p.m. and lasted for over an hour.

PREMIUM TIMES learned the attack was suspected to have been carried by terrorists from either the Dogo Gudale gang or Shadari gang, which are based in the nearby Gando forest.

An indigene of Bukkuyum town, Abdullahi Salisu, told this newspaper that the terorrists arrived the mosques in motorcycles just as Jum'at prayer was about to start and started shooting at the worshippers indiscriminately.

"When the bandits came on their motorcycles, they rode straig...