Bandits in Niger State have carried out the killing of the wife of a serving policeman along with her mother.
The incident occurred at Zhibi
community in Tafa Local Government Area of Niger State.
Daily Trust Saturday had
reported penultimate Wednesday how the gunmen broke into the policeman’s
compound located in the community neighbouring Dei-Dei town in the FCT.
They injured the policeman to
an unconscious state, before abducting his wife alongside her newborn baby, as
well as her mother, who came to assist with her postnatal needs.
The commander of the security
vigilante in Gauraka town, Sabo Abdullahi, told Daily Trust Saturday that two
corpses identified as the policeman’s wife and his mother-in-law, were
discovered with bullet injuries around Apo village in the community, which is
not far from a bandits’ camp, around the axis.
He said the development was
coming after their captors had handed over the woman’s baby to one of their
released victims residing in the community, directing him to take the child to
Zhibi community.
Daily Trust reporter met the
police officer, Ogwuche Simon, in his compound at Zhibi community on Thursday
after he left Maitama General Hospital, Abuja where he was taken to for
treatment.
He stated that he travelled to
Gauraka community on that day and brought back the baby from the police outpost
in the community where he was kept after he identified him as his son.
It was gathered that the
bandits demanded N30 million ransom before they killed the two people.
The Suleja police area commander
ACP Muhammad S. Musa confirmed the incident, adding that the two corpses had
been deposited at the Umaru Musa Yaradua Memorial Hospital in Sabon-Wuse town,
along the Abuja-Kaduna highway
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