About 20 people die in a bombing carried out by mistake by the Nigerian Air Force in Zamfara

Amnesty International calls for an “immediate and impartial” investigation and criticizes the “reckless use” of these attacks by the Armed Forces

Jan. 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Around 20 people, including members of a self-defence group, have been killed in a bombing mistakenly carried out by the Nigerian Air Force against a town in the northern state of Zamfara, residents have reported, without The authorities have commented on the matter.

According to information collected by the Nigerian newspaper ‘The Premium Times’, the attack was carried out on Saturday against the town of Tungar Kara, in the Maradun area, in the context of clashes between local forces and a group of unidentified assailants. .

One of the residents of the place has detailed that several members of a local self-defense militia mobilized with several inhabitants to repel the attack when they were hit by the bombing, without the Air Force having reacted for now to these complaints.

The non-governmental organization Amnesty International has already called for an “immediate and impartial” investigation into the bombing, before adding on its account on the social network .

“Launching bombings is not a legal form of law enforcement by any standards. This type of reckless use of deadly force is illegal, outrageous and shows the incredible lack of respect by the Nigerian Army for the lives of those protected.” supposed to protect,” he said.

In this sense, he has asserted that “the consistent failure of the Nigerian authorities to hold the Army accountable encourages impunity and increasingly endangers the lives of civilians that the Army is supposed to protect,” before Remember that on December 25, 2024 there was a similar bombing that also left civilian victims.

Amnesty International has stressed that these bombings “show a pattern of tragic examples of how the Nigerian Armed Forces recklessly apply deadly military tactics in security operations situations.”

The aforementioned bombing of December 25, 2024 was carried out in Sokoto State and resulted in the death of at least ten civilians. Although the Air Force assured that they were “terrorists,” it later promised an investigation following complaints from relatives of the victims.