Nigeria leader vows "no mercy" for gunmen behind massacre that left more than 150 dead in country's north
CBSN
Johannesburg — Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed there will be "no mercy" for gunmen who killed more than 150 people in a series of weekend attacks in the country's north. In some of the worst violence Nigeria has seen this year, armed gunmen on motorcycles raided and razed a group of villages in the northern Plateau state, highlighting growing insecurity in the region.
Villagers have been scouring bushes and other terrain for missing loved ones since the Sunday attacks. Many locals were shot trying to flee from the gunmen. Residents have said women and children were abducted by the attackers, but the number of those abducted remained unclear.
More than 80 victims were buried earlier this week in mass funeral services in the four villages, as additional security forces arrived in the area.
