Around 100 civilians were killed across Nigeria on Sunday in one of the single deadliest days of the country's ongoing conflict between its military and armed criminal gangs known locally as "bandits." A Nigerian military airstrike on a crowded market in Tumfa village in the northwestern state of Zamfara (a largely rural region long plagued by armed group activity) killed between 72 and 117 civilians depending on the source, with Amnesty International putting the toll at "at least 100"; a separate air force strike in central Niger state killed 13 more civilians, according to victims' families. The Nigerian military denied causing civilian casualties in both strikes, while bandits also carried out their own attacks the same day, killing at least 30 travellers in Zamfara and 12 people in Katsina state in unrelated massacres.