Separate attacks launched by bandits in Madaka community of Niger State on Friday, left one person reportedly dead.
Two residents and a local vigilante member revealed that several persons were abducted during the attacks in Rafi Local Government Area (LGA).
The community is in the same LGA as Kagara where 47 people, mostly children, were taken hostage by bandits who attacked Government Science College (GSC) on Wednesday.
The bandits were also said to have first camped there before proceeding to the school.
The fresh attack, it was understood, took place at about 2:00 pm when armed bandits waylaid villagers en route to a marriage ceremony along Madaka-Kagara road.
The gunmen subsequently ambushed another set of people returning from Madaka market.
The state police command did not immediately respond to an enquiry.
Said Zakari Mai, a member of the local vigilante: “We don’t know the number yet but they were many that were taken away. They were going for marriage ceremony and were ambushed on their way and parked into the bush”.
Yunusa Acha, a resident who confirmed the incident, said one of the escapees informed them of the development.
Said he: “The villagers went to Madaka market and on their way coming back, those bandits attacked them along the road and kidnapped them. Nobody knows the actual figure.
“Then, there was another attack like one hour after, against some people carrying their bride to a marriage ceremony along that same route. They were in a bus and the bandits packed all of them. We heard that one person was killed”.
