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“Those are the true bandits, demanding our rubles or else! ‘You are out of credit,’ they say.

They even carried slingshots loaded with very hard acorns, in case they met up with dangerous mail bandits along their postal route.

Eyewitnesses described a large group of attackers, known locally as bandits, who arrived firing sporadically to cause panic.

“Let the disgrace and responsibility for this,” he said, “rest with those who have proclaimed a bandit policy toward the Soviet Union.”

In addition to its jihadist insurgency, Nigeria also faces "bandit" gangs in the northwest who stage kidnappings, village raids and killings.