Residents fleeing bandit attack drown in Niger State

As they were escaping a bandit raid in the Gurmana village in Shiroro Local Government Area, four citizens of Niger State perished.

The community’s residents frequently use canoes to flee to an island where they may hide from robbers who regularly target the area.

When inhabitants who had evacuated to the island on Wednesday tried to return home, their boat sank on Thursday, which is when the catastrophe happened.

Recall that several residents of Bassa near Gurmana were kidnapped, cattle were rustled, and three individuals lost their lives as a result of the bandit onslaught on Wednesday night.

As of the time of this report, Wasiu Abiodun, the spokesman for the Niger State Police Command, has not replied to an SMS query.