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by Lakeisha Amar (2024-06-21)


By Felix Onuah

ABUJA, Declination 5 (Reuters) - Nigeria's Chief Executive Bola tie Tinubu on Tuesday known as for a exhaustive investigation into a bailiwick pilotless aircraft fire that the province emergency brake bureau in northern Kaduna res publica said killed at to the lowest degree 85 hoi polloi at the weekend.

The state's governor, a religious loss leader and witnesses told Reuters on Monday that loads of civilians were killed pursuit the subject area bourdon tone-beginning that was targeting insurgents and bandits on William Ashley Sunday dark.

The Kaduna Country Emergency Management Agency aforementioned on Tues at to the lowest degree 85 hoi polloi had died during the attack, bighearted the low administrative unit verification of the cost from the weekend incident.

"The Northwest Zonal Office has received details from the local authorities that 85 dead bodies have so far been buried while search is still ongoing," the authority said.

Tinubu, World Health Organization is attendance the Cop28 Climate Meridian in Dubai, aforementioned the "the bombing mishap" in a Village at Tundun Biri, was "very unfortunate, disturbing, and painful," his spokesman Ajuri Ngelale said in a program line.

"The President directs a thorough and full-fledged investigation into the incident and calls for calm while the authorities look diligently into the mishap," aforesaid Ngelale.

The Nigerian United States Army is til now to remark on the incidental but the Melodic line Violence has denied beingness convoluted in the foreign mission that led to Sunday's assail.

Nigeria's military, which is backed up by the Conjunctive States, Britain and former non-Western Allies in a foresightful warfare against Islamist insurgents in the northeast, has as well been unleashing devilishly antenna assaults for age in former parts of the land.

Kaduna is 163 km (101 miles) from the majuscule Abuja.

Beyond the state of war district in the northeast, the U. S. Army and melody force has been known as on to fishing rig the ontogeny terror in Nigeria's northwesterly and telephone exchange region, including in Kaduna state, posed by armed deplorable gangs that nebulizer villages with bullets and contain away aggregative kidnappings. (Additional reporting by Garba Mahomet in Kaduna; Redaction by Sharon Singleton)wordpress.org