About 30 people have died following last Friday’s attacks on Muslim worshippers during the Jumaat prayers in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State, the chairman of the council, Mohammed Abdullahi, has said.
Abdullahi said the terrorists abducted about 60 worshippers across mosques in four villages during Friday prayers.
The chairman’s disclosure comes in the wake of President Bola Tinubu condemning the mass abduction and ordering security agencies to rescue the captives.
Our reporters gathered that the attacks occurred simultaneously during the Juma’at prayers in the villages of Dekara, Kpenya, Sabon-Gida, and Gidan-Zana.
Sources said the attackers ordered the worshippers out of their mosques and herded them into the forest.
