The Nigerian authorities on Tuesday ordered a probe after a military drone strike accident killed a minimum of 85 civilians final weekend in a village in northwest Kaduna State, emergency officers mentioned.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ordered the investigation into one of many nation’s deadliest navy bombing accidents after the military acknowledged certainly one of its drones by accident struck Tudun Biri village as residents had been celebrating an Islamic pageant.
The military didn’t give any casualty figures, however the native residents had mentioned 85 folks, lots of them ladies and kids, had been killed.
“The Northwest Zonal Office has received details from the local authorities that 85 dead bodies have so far been buried while a search is still ongoing,” National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) mentioned in an announcement.
NEMA mentioned one other 66 folks had been being handled on the hospital, however emergency officers had been nonetheless negotiating with neighborhood leaders to calm tensions to have the ability to attain the village.
“President Tinubu describes the incident as very unfortunate, disturbing, and painful, expressing indignation and grief over the tragic loss of Nigerian lives,” the presidency mentioned in an announcement.
Nigeria’s armed forces usually depend on air strikes of their battle in opposition to so-called bandit militias within the northwest and northeast of the nation, the place jihadists have been combating for greater than a decade.
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