8th March, 2023
Yet-to-be-identified bandits on Wednesday abducted three persons; a woman and her two daughters from Beji in the Bosso Local Government Area of Niger State.
A resident in the community, Abdulahi Aminu, said the bandits made their way into the community around 1 a.m. and started shooting sporadically.
Explaining, he said, “We were sleeping when we started to hear gunshots and then people started to run into the bush. The bandits entered the village, and they were shooting for more than two hours non-stop,”.
He stated that the attack took place behind the Beji General Hospital without being challenged by security agencies or vigilante members.
Aminu stated that a woman and two of her daughters were abducted from their home and taken to an unknown destination.
“One woman and her two daughters by the bandits while their male tenants who were abducted along with them have later escaped through the whiskers,” he added.
According to him, the bandits have yet to contact members of the family for any ransom.
He also suspected that the kidnapping is linked to an inheritance of a filling station in Beji.
SP Wasiu Abiodun, the spokesman for the Niger state police command, confirmed the claim, saying that a tactical team has been dispatched to rescue them.