There was palpable tension yesterday in Tegina, Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, yesterday as bandits stormed the town, killing a least two people, and kidnapped over 200 children.
Many of the children kidnapped were from an Islamic school in the town who just resumed lessons.
The bandits, numbering 40, according to a source, stormed the town on many motorcycles and shot sporadically into the air to create fears in the people.
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Africa Today News, New York gathered that the gunmen made their way straight to the Islamic school close to Tegina police station and abducted an unspecified number of children.
It is interesting to note that, Tegina town is a few kilometers from Kagara, headquarters of Rafi Local Government where 27 schoolboys were abducted on February 27 this year.
Kagara has been the epicenter of bandits activities in the state with no day passing without a report of attack.
Director-General of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA), Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmed Inga, confirmed the story when reached on telephone but said ‘we don’t have the details yet‘
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK
