{"id":57652,"date":"2024-11-06T19:04:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T19:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/bandits-kill-10-persons-in-niger-community\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T19:04:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T19:04:43","slug":"bandits-kill-10-persons-in-niger-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/bandits-kill-10-persons-in-niger-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandits kill 10 persons in Niger community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Suspected gunmen have allegedly killed 10 persons in Wayam community of Sabon-Gari District in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST learnt that the incident occurred on Tuesday in the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n<p>The bandits reportedly stormed the community on motorcycles in their numbers shooting sporadically which created panic and pandemonium.<\/p>\n<p>They were said to have killed three persons and slaughtered two women who refused their sexual advances, while five others died of bullet wounds hours later.<\/p>\n<p>The gunmen set houses and food stuff of the villagers on fire before departing.<\/p>\n<p>A source from the community who did not want to be mentioned by name when contacted, said the community is currently deserted as residents had fled following the attack.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that about six months ago, bandits attacked Madaka community, a few kilometres from Wayam, and killed about 60 people.<\/p>\n<p>The Niger State Police Command Public Relations Officer, SP Wasiu Abiodun, could not be reached for response at the time of filing the report.<\/p>\n<p>Bandits kill 10 persons in Niger community<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected gunmen have allegedly killed 10 persons in Wayam community of Sabon-Gari District in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1688,384,15,1282,761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gunmen","category-metro","category-news","category-niger","category-top-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}