Since Sunday evening, suspected members of the Boko Haram have taken over Pandogari-Allawa road in Shiroro Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State, killing and kidnapping locals, especially women and children….CONTINUE READING
The terrorists, around 05:00 p.m. on Sunday, waylaid a convoy of seven goods-laden vehicles heading to Allawa from Pandogari, a town in Kagara, the capital of Rafi LGA.
They killed six locals and kidnapped many women and children before setting three vehicles ablaze, PREMIUM TIMES gathered.
The other four vehicles narrowly escaped — two to Allawa and the remaining to Pandogari. Subsequently, a combined team of local vigilantes and officials of the Nigerian Army stationed at Allawa town mobilised to the scene for a rescue mission, residents of the community told PREMIUM TIMES.
Dodging an explosives Jibrin Allawa, a youth leader from the community, told PREMIUM TIMES that the insurgents had “planted a land mine which one of the drivers leading the convoy spotted and unsuccessfully attempted to dodge.”
