Terrorists Kill Man, Woman With 3-Month-Old Baby, Tie Baby To Mother’s Back, Abduct Passengers Along Niger Highway –Resident

The woman was reportedly travelling with her three-month-old baby when the attackers stopped the vehicle.

Terrorists have reportedly killed a woman and a man travelling in a vehicle and abducted other passengers along the Kainji–Ibbi–Zurguma–Mokwa Road in Ibbi, Mashegu Local Government Area of Niger State.

The woman was reportedly travelling with her three-month-old baby when the attackers stopped the vehicle.

According to a resident who spoke in Hausa in a telephone interview posted online by Gaskiya News Hausa and monitored by SaharaReporters, the terrorists killed the woman and the man before tying the infant to the woman’s body and leaving with other passengers in the vehicle.

The resident said the incident occurred amid a worsening wave of attacks, killings and abductions along the route, which he described as a major transportation corridor connecting communities in northern Nigeria with parts of the southern region.