People lie bloodied and wounded in a village in central Nigeria, recovering from the deadliest of raids this year blamed on heavily armed criminal gangs known locally as bandits. The April 10 attack on Kanam district in Plateau state left more than 100 civilians dead, and reveals a new pattern of growing violence devastating the northwes and north central states of Africa's most populous nation.

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