Local authorities confirmed an attack on the presidential guard in the Nigerian capital on Friday.

July 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello confirmed on Tuesday an attack on the presidential guard in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Friday night in which eight people were killed and three soldiers were wounded.

The soldiers, in charge of the security of the president and his family, as well as other high officials, were ambushed while patrolling the area of ​​Bwari, a local governorate in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

In this area is the Nigerian Law School and the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB), the alleged target of the attackers, suspected of belonging to the jihadist group Boko Haram in the framework of a possible expansion of terrorist and criminal networks. in the country, many of whom live by kidnapping students.

As reported by the Nigerian newspaper ‘The Premium Times’, Bello has urged the authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice, while sending his condolences to the families of the victims.

This incident occurs amid growing insecurity in the area, which has forced all schools to close with “immediate effect” after a video circulated on social media in which the suspects threatened to kidnap the country’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, and the governor of the state of Kaduna, Nasir Ahmad al Rufai, as reported by the newspaper ‘The Guardian’.

On Monday, protests were also registered before the Ministry of Transport in Abuja to denounce the situation of the kidnapped people – who appeared in said viral video being beaten – after the attack on a train that covered the route between the capital of Nigeria and the city of Kaduna (north).

The attack took place between the towns of Katari and Rijana, where a device placed on the track to force the convoy to stop exploded, after which a group of unidentified armed persons opened fire on the wagons and tried to enter them.

The train that connects Abuja and Kaduna is considered a safer means of transport than the roads that lead to this state, shaken for years by attacks by jihadist groups and criminal gangs that have increased their operations in recent months.

The attacks in Nigeria, previously focused on the northeast of the country – where Boko Haram and its offshoot, the Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA) operate – have spread in recent months to other areas of the north and northwest.