Exactly seven days after over 300 students were abducted from St. Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri in Agwara Local Government Area of Niger State, bandits have launched another deadly attack in Palaita community, Erena Ward, Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State.

They abducted 24 people, including a pregnant woman, from a rice farm and chopped off the hand of a blind man.

The bandits also attacked a community in Abuja, and kidnapped six girls and a boy.

How bandits kidnapped 24 in Niger

A source in the community said the attackers struck at about 2:00pm on Wednesday while residents were harvesting their crops.

Despite Palaita being only five kilometres from a military base in Erena, the bandits reportedly escaped with the victims before security personnel could respond.