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Sokoto bus massacre

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ110129793 ↗
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On 7 December 2021, armed men attacked a bus in Sokoto State in northwestern Nigeria. The gunmen, apparently part of a bandit group, ambushed the vehicle on a road between Sabon Birni and Gidan Bawa. They set fire to the bus, killing about 30 people.

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