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“They attacked us at night, disrupted our sleep with terrifying gunshots, we ran for our lives,” Khadija Yusuf recounted amid sobs.
“Some of us ran to the hill, some hid in the bush, some of us ran in confusion to death, children cried helplessly and many were carted away by the brutal bandits. The pregnant women among us, old and young women ran nonstop.
“How we reached Pandogari is still shocking to all of us.”
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The bandits wreaked havoc on Allawa from Wednesday to Saturday, forcing hundreds of people from the community to take refuge in the streets of Pandogari a town with no internally displaced persons (IDP) camp.
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Eighteen passengers on board one of the buses of the Niger State Transport Authority have been kidnapped by bandits.
The attack was said to have occurred around Yakila village in the Rafi Local Government Area of the state.
It was learnt that the bandits left a woman and her baby behind and went away with other 18 passengers.
The passengers were said to be heading for Minna, the state capital, from Kotangora when the incident happened.
The Director General of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency, Mallam Ibrahim Inga, confirmed the incident on the telephone.