Nigeria: Terrorist kill 17, injure scores in mosque, abduct 18 in fresh Niger attacks

 Nigeria: Terrorist kill 17, injure scores in mosque, abduct 18 in fresh Niger attacks Seventeen people were yesterday, killed in Maza-Kula ...

 Nigeria: Terrorist kill 17, injure scores in mosque, abduct 18 in fresh Niger attacks

Seventeen people were yesterday, killed in Maza-Kula village in Mashegu local government area of Niger State as suspected armed bandits invaded a mosque in an early morning attack, with many injured and eighteen abducted.

But, the state police command said that the incident was understood to be a reprisal attack resulting from a long-standing communal feud.

The armed men were said to have arrived in the village in a long convoy on motorcycles and made straight to the mosque where they started shooting sporadically to scare the people.

Those who rushed out of the Mosque were reportedly gunned down while others trapped in the mosque were also shot at close range and left in their pools of blood.

It was gathered that many, who were scampering for safety, sustained various degrees of injuries.

At the end of the raid, no fewer than eighteen people were abducted and their whereabouts unknown till now.

A resident, who pleaded anonymity, said they were caught unaware. “The entire village was calm with people in different mosques performing their morning prayers only to start hearing sporadic shooting and later heard that many people had been killed, others injured and some abducted

“ We are yet to know where they were taken to or those behind it,” he remarked.

When contacted, Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Ahmed Ibrahim Matane, confirmed the attack but said that sixteen people were killed in the Mosque while others were killed at Kaboji village by the same armed men.