A security report released on Thursday by an Abuja-based security outfit, Beacon Intel, has revealed that 586 Nigerians were killed while 369 others were victims of abductions across the country in the month of August.
The report which was presented to journalists at a press briefing in Abuja, noted that the killings took place in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory while the cases of kidnappings occurred in 24 states of the nation.
A breakdown of the recorded fatalities, according to the report, showed that 47.95 per cent of the killings, or 281, occurred in the North-East, 16.55 per cent (97), occurred in the North Central, 9.90 per cent in the North-West (58), 8.87 per cent in the South-West (52), 6.48 per cent in the South-East (38), and 10.23 per cent in the South-South (60).
