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An Army personnel in Nigeria. PHOTO: AFP <\/p>\n
LAGOS: <\/p>\n
More than 30 people were killed and several others kidnapped by “bandits” in Nigeria’s central Niger state, local police said Sunday.<\/p>\n
The bandits invaded Kasuwan Daji village in Kabe district and set a market ablaze, before looting shops for food.<\/p>\n
“Over 30 victims lost their lives during the attack, some persons were also kidnapped,” during the raid on Saturday, Wasiu Abiodun, Niger police spokesman said.<\/p>\n
Kidnap gangs, referred to as bandits by locals, regularly carry out mass kidnappings for ransom and loot villages in the parts of northwest and northcentral Nigeria.<\/p>\n
But Niger state has been one of the hardest hit in recent months.<\/p>\n
In November, armed gangs seized more than 250 teachers and staff from a Catholic school in the state.<\/p>\n
Authorities announced their release in two batches weeks later without saying if ransom was paid.<\/p>\n
At least 26 people drowned and 14 others are missing after a boat carrying farmers and fishermen capsized in northeastern Nigeria, the emergency services said Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":". An Army personnel in Nigeria. PHOTO: AFP LAGOS: More than 30 people were killed and several others…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[3300,122,929],"class_list":{"0":"post-4128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-latest","9":"tag-nigeria","10":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}