Tinubu condemned Tuesday’s “beastly attack”, which he said was carried out against villagers who had rejected extremist Islamist ideology. “President Tinubu expressed rage that the attackers killed the community members who rejected their obnoxious attempt at indoctrination,” a presidential statement said on Wednesday. The main attack occured late Tuesday in Woro village, while another attack was reported in Nuku village. Ayodeji Emmanuel Babaomo, the Red Cross secretary in Kwara State, said the death toll stood at 162, “as the search for more bodies continues”. He told French news agency AFP that gunmen had burned shops and a traditional ruler’s home in Woro and that wounded people fled into the bushes. Babaomo said the organisation has been unable to reach the communities where “scores of people were killed” because of the remoteness of the area – about eight hours from the state capital and near Nigeria’s border with Benin.

Full report : Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has deployed an army batallion to the western state of Kwara after gunmen killed at least 162 people in one of the country’s deadliest attacks in recent months.