In an average Nigerian community where everyone knows almost everyone else, the loss of one person to violence is often felt deeply. If five people get killed at once in the community, the grief can only be imagined.
But in the semi-urban town of Potiskum, Yobe State, more than 60 people were cut down by assassins' bullets in a twinkle of an eye, on May 2. Suspected armed robbers were said to have stormed the livestock market in Potiskum to avenge the killing of one of them earlier in the day.
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