source: Sahara Reporters; Inside Arewa (Nigeria); Concise News; Blueprint
actor1: Rioters (Nigeria)
actor2: Police Forces of Nigeria (2015-)
location: Sabon Wuse
notes: On 24 May 2021, hundreds of residents of Angwan-Wazo-bia community blocked the Abuja-Kaduna Highway with bonfires, stones and wood in Tafa LGA (Niger) over kidnappings in the area. Demonstrators threw sachets of water at the Chairman of Tafa LGA who had come to address them. Security operatives intervened and shot at the crowd, injuring one. Following intervention, demonstrators vandalized and set the police station ablaze in Gauraka (Tafa LGA, Niger) [coded to Sabon Wuse]. [size=hundreds]