{"id":37527,"date":"2021-02-21T17:55:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T17:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=37527"},"modified":"2021-02-21T16:53:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T16:53:40","slug":"bandits-in-military-uniform-strike-again-in-niger-kidnap-women-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/bandits-in-military-uniform-strike-again-in-niger-kidnap-women-children","title":{"rendered":"Bandits in military uniform strike again in Niger, kidnap women, children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Some gunmen believed to be bandits have struck again in Niger State.<\/p>\n<p>The bandits were said to have abducted women and children in Gurmana village in the State.<\/p>\n<p>Disclosing this, former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani alleged that the bandits who wore military uniform struck at about 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, the former lawmaker claimed that some of the residents who tried to escape drowned in River Kaduna.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBandits in Military uniform attacked Gurmana, a village in Niger State around 4pm yesterday. They abducted mostly women and children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome who tried to escape drowned in the River Kaduna. I spoke to one of the survivors, a teacher, now seeking refuge in Kuta, Niger State. A tragedy, a day,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>This is coming barely a week after bandits had abducted some students from Government Science College in Kagara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Some gunmen believed to be bandits have struck again in Niger State. The bandits were said to have abducted women and children in Gurmana village in the State. Disclosing this, former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani alleged that the bandits who wore military uniform struck at about 4 p.m. In a tweet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":37526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1578,138,470,254],"class_list":["post-37527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-breaking","tag-kidnap","tag-niger","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bandits in military uniform strike again in Niger, kidnap women, children - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Some gunmen believed to be bandits have struck again in Niger State. 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