Bandits have launched yet one more lethal assault on Niger State, abducting 24 folks, together with a pregnant girl, and mutilating a blind resident in separate assaults inside the similar native authorities space.
The most recent incident occurred on Wednesday in Palaita neighborhood, Erena Native Authorities Space, the place armed males stormed a farmland whereas labourers had been harvesting crops.
Witnesses mentioned the attackers rounded up the employees and whisked them away into the bush. Amongst these taken was a closely pregnant girl.
In a separate invasion inside the similar native authorities space, the criminals reportedly reduce off the arm of a blind man after he allegedly didn’t “cooperate” with their calls for.
Residents say the renewed assaults have heightened concern throughout surrounding communities, with calls mounting for pressing authorities intervention to halt the escalating insecurity within the state.