The attack came barely one week after Governor Babangida Aliyu directed all traditional rulers in the state, local government chairmen, security agencies and members of the public to be extra vigilant because the emergency rule in some parts of the North might force the insurgents to relocate to the state.
According to an eyewitness account, the attack was carried out by the armed men with mask and fierce costumes, wielding dangerous weapons. They raided the farming community in the early hours of the day.
It was further gathered that the incident, which occurred at about 2 a.m. caught the villagers napping, they lost valuable possessions to the invaders. According to the source, the villagers who had retired for the night around 8 p.m. were suddenly awoken by sound of gunshot as the invading herdsmen ransacked the village house-to-house, shooting indiscriminately and inflicting cuts on their victims.
Some of the villagers managed to escape to the bush but the elderly women and children were not as lucky as they fell to the fire power of the invaders.
Confirming the incident, the Niger State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Richard Adamu Oguche said from preliminary reports the Command gathered that nine persons lost their lives in the midnight raid attack.
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