{"id":916554,"date":"2022-01-15T16:26:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T16:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/15\/bandits-kill-two-injure-five-others-in-niger-communities\/"},"modified":"2022-01-15T16:26:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T16:26:18","slug":"bandits-kill-two-injure-five-others-in-niger-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/15\/bandits-kill-two-injure-five-others-in-niger-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandits Kill Two, Injure Five Others In Niger Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bandits evil.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"375\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In what will come across as a really startling development, some bandits attacked villages in Mashegu and Kontagora local government areas of Niger State, killed two persons and abducted five others.<\/p>\n<p>According to a source, the bandits in large numbers, stormed five villages on Friday, operated for hours and rustled several cattle as the villagers fled their homes for safety.<\/p>\n<p>A source who spoke to newsmen explained that 26 of his family cattle were rustled, stressing that the bandits first launched an attack on Tungan-Ru\u2019a village in the morning, forcing villagers to flee their homes to Mashegu.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline  tdi_2_e3e td_block_template_1\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-all-devices\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GiftCards-300x250-1.jpg\" alt=\"Gift Cards\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He said, <em>\u201cAfter attacking the first village, they divided themselves into two; one group went to attack Tungan-Maje village where they rustled cattle.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He added that after the attack, they moved towards Mashegu, where they also entered the local government secretariat, saying that from there, they went to Kawo-Mashegu village where two people were killed, while four others were abducted and several cattle rustled.<\/p>\n<p>He further explained that their children who took the cattle out for grazing had to run for their lives, adding that in the afternoon, they also attacked Tungan-Magaji village where several cattle were also taken away.<\/p>\n<p>According to another source, the bandits after a few hours, called families of victims to demand ransom.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the villagers contributed N300,000 and two people were sent to deliver the ransom.<\/p>\n<p>He said they collected the money and held the two persons who took the money to them too, stressing that presently, four persons were in their captivity.<\/p>\n<p>The police spokesman in Niger State, Wasiu Abiodun could not be reached as of press time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what will come across as a really startling development, some bandits attacked villages in Mashegu and Kontagora local government areas of Niger State, killed two persons and abducted five others. According to a source, the bandits in large numbers, stormed five villages on Friday, operated for hours and rustled several cattle as the villagers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}